Force10 Networks: Applications: Cluster/Grid Computing: Top 500

Top500

Force10 Networks provides the line-rate, non-blocking Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch/routers that are integral to the infrastructure of scores of critical high performance computing systems. Force10 switch/routers are utilized in more than 30 percent of the top 40 most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Force10 switch/routers are part of the most powerful IBM, Sun Microsystems, Cray and Dell supercomputers on the Top500.org list of the worlds fastest supercomputers. As the first supercomputer to reach peak performance of one Petaflop, Roadrunner, built on IBM’s BladeCenter, set a new milestone in the industry. Ranked fourth in the world, Ranger at the Texas Advanced Computing Center is the leading Sun supercomputer on the list. At number five, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer is Cray’s highest entry on the list. Abe, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, is 23 on the list and the most powerful Dell supercomputer.

In addition to powering the fastest supercomputer in the U.S., the Force10 Reliable Networking product portfolio is integral to the leading supercomputers in Europe, Russia and Korea. Based in Germany, Forschungszentrum Juelich, with its Jugene supercomputer, is ranked 6th on the list and has deployed the Force10 TeraScale E1200 with more than 200 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports. Russia’s Moscow State University is home to the country’s leading supercomputer, SKIF-GRID, which utilizes the Force10 C300 resilient switch as well as the S50 and S2410. The Tachyon supercomputer at the KISTI Supercomputing Center, the fastest in Korea, also relies on Force10.

With research environments and national laboratories demanding more computational power, supercomputers will continue to increase in size and performance. Force10 Networks provides the reliability and scalability needed to optimize supercomputer performance and enhance state-of-the-art research and analysis, as well as to power today’s demanding commercial applications that require an “always-on” network.

The Top500 fastest supercomputers which rely on Force10 switch/routers are listed below; the Top500 ranking (e.g. 1st fastest or 4th fastest in the world) is shown to the left of each supercomputer and customer.