The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, better known as the Albert Einstein Institute, will use Force10 Networks’ E-Series switch/routers as the central interconnection facility for a new, high-performance computing cluster. The network will be used for on-going research on black holes, gravitational waves and other phenomena predicted by Einstein. Financial terms were not disclosed.
http://www.force10networks.comSome other research center customers announced by Force10 Networks:
- The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which is using Force10 Networks 10 GigE switch/routers to connect its Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) to the National Science Foundations’ TeraGrid project, which is the world’s largest supercomputing grid.
- the National Center For Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)
- the University of Amsterdam, which is a member of DataGrid, a project funded by the European Union working towards the creation of a next-generation computing infrastructure providing intensive computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases across widely distributed scientific communities.