IDT RapidIO® 20 Gbps-Per-Port Switches Provide High-Performance Interconnect for Low-Power BrownDwarf Supercomputer
June 17 2013 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®) (NASDAQ: IDTI), the
Analog and Digital Company™ delivering essential mixed-signal
semiconductor solutions, today announced that the IDT CPS-1848 and
CPS-1616 Gen 2 Serial RapidIO® switches provide the key system
interconnect for the low-power BrownDwarf Supercomputer developed
by nCore HPC and Prodrive. IDT's RapidIO switches offer
20 Gbps throughput per port with the lowest latency and the
highest performance-per-watt compared to other interconnects,
enabling nCore and Prodrive to use Texas Instruments’ (TI)
RapidIO-equipped processors and leapfrog supercomputing
incumbents.
The BrownDwarf supercomputer leverages TI's Keystone-II, which
integrates multiple ARM® Cortex™-A15 MPCore™ processors, and
TMS320C66x digital signal processors (DSPs) that feature embedded
RapidIO Gen2 endpoints developed by IDT. BrownDwarf's three-shelf
ATCA-based system delivers 70 teraflops of performance with 144
AMC-based nodes and 4032 processing cores. Taking into account the
entire system power consumption, including processing,
interconnect, and infrastructure, this equates to a very impressive
6.4 gigaflops per watt. In addition, the supercomputer is designed
to easily scale using open standard RapidIO-based inter-cabinet
switching, creating large multi-cabinet systems with up to 64K
computing nodes.
nCore HPC and Prodrive selected IDT’s RapidIO switches for key
benefits in throughput, latency, reliability and overall system
power utilization that could not be achieved with Infiniband- or
Ethernet-based approaches. IDT's RapidIO switches offer 20 Gbps of
bandwidth per port, 100 ns cut through latency, 300 mW per 10
Gbps of data, up to 240 Gbps of non-blocking switch performance,
and built-in reliable transmission. These performance, power, and
reliability advantages are essential for supercomputer applications
that leverage the power-efficient BrownDwarf platform.
“Our goal was to bring to market the most energy-efficient
supercomputer,” said Ian Lintault, Managing Director of nCore. “We
leveraged IDT’s RapidIO Gen 2 switches and TI’s RapidIO-equipped
Keystone-II devices to create the highest-performance,
lowest-power, non-NIC-based network fabric – an achievement that
would not have been possible with InfiniBand® or Ethernet systems
used by traditional supercomputing vendors. The BrownDwarf is
expected to be in the top tier of the Green 500 world’s most
energy-efficient supercomputers.”
“We have successfully deployed IDT’s RapidIO Gen2 switches for
many customers across various embedded markets,” said Pieter
Janssen, CEO at Prodrive. “Our past successes allowed us to quickly
leverage the ATCA-based infrastructure for the BrownDwarf platform,
going from concept to product launch in fewer than 6 months.
RapidIO Gen2 is a key element of our computing solutions strategy
and provides a graceful path to upgrade with RapidIO 10xN at 40
Gbps per port.”
“RapidIO is key to the multi-processor peer-to-peer processing
needs that are emerging in both supercomputing and data center
applications,” said Tom Sparkman, vice president and general
manager of the Communications Division at IDT. “With the growth of
processor-to-processor traffic in these applications, IDT’s RapidIO
switches bring the critical attributes of embedded systems to offer
improved system-level performance, throughput, latency, and energy
efficiency.”
The IDT CPS-1848 and CPS-1616 belong to a broad portfolio of
industry-leading RapidIO switch and bridge offerings. IDT provides
a wide selection of port and lane count devices that allow
customers to tailor their switch selection to the application. For
more information about IDT’s RapidIO solutions, visit
www.idt.com/go/SRIO.
nCore HPC’s BrownDwarf supercomputer will be available to
qualified customers in the second half of 2013. Prodrive offers
other form-factor developments or quick-turn customized solutions.
Visit www.ncorehpc.com and www.prodrive.nl for more information.
The BrownDwarf Supercomputer is being demonstrated at the
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Leipzig, Germany
at booth 663 from June 17-20, 2013.
About IDT
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., the Analog and Digital
Company™, develops system-level solutions that optimize its
customers’ applications. IDT uses its market leadership in timing,
serial switching and interfaces, and adds analog and system
expertise to provide complete application-optimized, mixed-signal
solutions for the communications, computing and consumer segments.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing,
sales facilities and distribution partners throughout the world,
with direct purchase services through IDT Direct™. IDT stock is
traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol
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