The combined products would accelerate business growth by providing high bandwidth, low latency, fabric stability and scalability, according to HP. Financial terms of the deal, which is part of the pair’s long-standing strategic alliance, were not disclosed.
HP vice president of high-performance computing, or HPC, Winston Prather, said the Cisco switches fit well with HP’ cluster products for high-performance computation, data management and visualization.
Specifically, the Cisco InfiniBand HPC drivers work with the HP 4X DDR IB mezzanine host channel adapters within BladeSystem c-Class blade servers. The c-Class systems are then connected with 20Gbps per line rate InfiniBand uplinks to the 7000 series InfiniBand fixed and modular switching chassis, as part of larger InfiniBand HPC clusters. These clusters enable high performance and scalability for message-passing distributed-parallel applications, HP said.
Teaming HP’s rack-mount and blade servers with Cisco DDR switches promises improved bit error rates, troubleshooting and high-availability capabilities, said the companies. The upshot to customers is predictable and reliable fabric stability, they said.
