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TAIPEI, June 1 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –

IWILL System Boards With PathScale InfiniPath(TM) InfiniBand(TM)
Interconnect Achieve Record-Breaking Performance
on Standard MPI Latency Tests

IWILL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of high-end server, workstation
and appliance solutions, and PathScale, developer of innovative software and
hardware solutions to accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux(R)
clusters, have announced that IWILL’s AMD Opteron processor-based system boards
with standard HTX slots are being offered with the PathScale InfiniPath(TM)
InfiniBand(TM) HTX(TM) Interconnect to deliver unprecedented low-latency
performance for HPC users. This announcement was made today at the 25th annual
Computex Taipei Conference, Asia’s largest IT show.

The IWILL Booth at Computex Taipei is B1110.
IWILL and PathScale also announced record-breaking results on
industry-standard benchmark tests by the InfiniPath(TM) interconnect operating
with the IWILL DK8-HTX AMD Opteron(TM) processor-based system board. The
InfiniPath HTX(TM) Adapter is a low-latency cluster interconnect for
InfiniBand(TM) that plugs into standard HyperTransport technology-based HTX
slots on IWILL system boards.

"This new technology takes full advantage of the AMD Opteron processor with
Direct Connect Architecture, directly connecting I/O, memory and processors
with open-standard HyperTransport(TM) technology," said Pat Patla, director,
server/workstation marketing, Microprocessor Solutions Sector for AMD (NYSE:
AMD). "There is clearly a strong market interest in this innovative new cluster
interconnect solution."

Optimized for communications-sensitive applications, PathScale InfiniPath
is the industry’s lowest-latency Linux cluster interconnect for message passing
(MPI) applications. Operating on an IWILL DK8-HTX server board, InfiniPath
achieved an all time record-low MPI latency of 1.32 microseconds on the
standard Ohio State MPI benchmarks. InfiniPath also achieved a peak
bi-directional bandwidth of 1842 MB/s and achieves half of this peak bandwidth
at 385 byte messages (streaming), the best in the industry. This means that
SMP-class performance will now be available to commodity-priced compute
clusters, increasing application performance, cluster utilization and user
productivity.

"IWILL and PathScale are leveraging five important industry standards:
HyperTransport, InfiniBand, OpenIB, MPICH and the AMD64 Direct Connect
Architecture," explained Harry Hirschman, director of PathScale’s InfiniPath
marketing unit. "By supporting these latest open standards, IWILL and PathScale
are delivering low-latency HPC solutions that are superior in nearly all
respects to other systems using older, proprietary interconnect technologies."

The InfiniPath interconnect connects to any standard InfiniBand 4X switch
including those from SilverStorm (Infinicon), Cisco (TopSpin) and Voltaire.
InfiniPath will also support the OpenIB software stack providing full
InfiniBand compliance. InfiniPath works with all AMD Opteron processors, but
uniquely exploits Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers. InfiniPath
implements a HyperTransport tunnel architecture enabling easier configurability
on multiprocessor designs.

"The combination of IWILL system boards and the PathScale InfiniPath
interconnect can efficiently and reliably scale to thousands of nodes,"
explained Mason Su, worldwide general manager for IWILL Corporation. "Our
commitment to supporting the latest advanced technologies means that our
resellers and system OEMs will always experience the best possible performance
from IWILL’s HPC systems."

PathScale InfiniPath HTX Adapters and AMD Opteron processor-based servers
with IWILL DK8-HTX system boards offering the new standard HTX slots will ship
in June and are now orderable from over 20 leading Linux systems providers
including: Alexander Technology (Australia), Angstrom Microsystems (USA), Appro
International (USA), Aravision (Taiwan), Compusys (UK), Dalco AG (Switzerland),
DataSwift (France), E4 Computer Engineering (Italy), Gridcore AB (Sweden), Hard
Data (Canada), Megware (Germany), Microway (USA), NovaGlobal (Singapore),
Progression Infonet (India), Rackable Systems (USA), Scalable Systems
(Singapore), Streamline Computing (UK), Sumisho Electronics (Japan), Team HPC
(USA), T-Platforms (Russia), Visual Technology (Japan) and Western Scientific
(USA).

About IWILL
IWILL is a leader in the design, manufacturing and deployment of
workstation and server motherboard platforms. IWILL continues to develop,
innovate and improve — while reinvesting in design and manufacturing practices
that add to stability, quality and reliability of the finished product. For
more information, please visit www.iwill.net or iwillusa.com

About PathScale
Based in Mountain View, California, PathScale develops innovative software
and hardware technologies that substantially increase the performance and
efficiency of Linux clusters, the next significant wave in high-end computing.
Applications that benefit from PathScale’s technologies include seismic
processing, complex physical modeling, EDA simulation, molecular modeling,
biosciences, econometric modeling, computational chemistry, computational fluid
dynamics, finite element analysis, weather modeling, resource optimization,
decision support and data mining. PathScale’s investors include Adams Street
Partners, Charles River Ventures, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, CMEA
Ventures, ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures and the Dow Employees Pension Plan.
For more details, visit www.pathscale.com, send email to sales@pathscale.com or
telephone 1-650-934-8100.

SOURCE: PathScale

CONTACT: David Wright,
+1-650-618-1544,
dw1@mbipr.com,
for PathScale

Web site: http://www.iwill.net
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Web site: http://www.pathscale.com

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