SAN JOSE, Calif., June 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated
Device Technology, Inc. (IDT®) (NASDAQ: IDTI) announced today
that CERN's data-processing framework has successfully been ported
to a RapidIO®-enabled low-latency network that features
multiple x86 CPU nodes, a world first in the high-performance
computing market. The development comes during the first phase of
IDT's collaboration with CERN (the European Organization for
Nuclear Research), part of a multi-year project announced last year
that is designed to speed and improve data analytics at CERN's
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and data center.
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During this groundbreaking work, standard x86 servers in the
CERN data center were equipped with 20 Gbps RapidIO network
interface controller (NIC) cards and connected with a 0.75 Tbps
RapidIO top of rack switch appliance designed by Prodrive
Technologies. Leveraging this hardware architecture, CERN openlab
researchers successfully ported CERN's ROOT framework for data
processing and analytics, as well as the LHCb experiment's DAQPIPE
event-building emulator, which is used to evaluate high-tech
interconnects intended to be used in the collider event-building
network. Full hardware line rates were sustained, and link
utilization rates were competitive relative to other industry
options, which is a key to more efficient data center workload
optimization.
CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership that
accelerates the development of cutting-edge solutions for the
worldwide LHC community and wider scientific research. The
collaboration with IDT is working to improve overall data
acquisition and analysis for the massive volumes of data collected
by the experiments on the LHC, the world's largest and most
powerful particle accelerator. The LHC produces millions of
collisions every second in each detector, generating approximately
one petabyte of data per second. This data is important to
CERN's quest to answer fundamental questions about the
universe.
In addition to high-performance computing, IDT's low-latency
RapidIO products are widely used in 4G base stations. IDT has
deployed over 110 million ports of 10-20 Gbps RapidIO technology
and recently launched 50 Gbps silicon.
"This is an innovative achievement by CERN researchers in the
HPC and analytics community," said Alberto
Di Meglio, head of CERN openlab. "The CERN openlab research
team demonstrated that near native line speed could be achieved in
many cases, proving that the technology is able to function at a
small scale and could constitute a compelling alternative in future
architectures."
"With this CERN collaboration, IDT is able to showcase how well
this low-latency technology is suited for mission-critical data
analytics," said Sailesh
Chittipeddi, IDT's vice president of Global Operations and
chief technology officer. "The successful port of the ROOT
analytics and CERN's event building use cases on the
RapidIO-enabled analytics platform is a key technical achievement
that can benefit all of our customers doing HPC, accelerated
hyperscale cloud analytics and telecom mobile edge computing."
Results from the successful port can be found in IDT's
presentation from the CERN openlab Open Day on June 9, and will also be on display at the
RapidIO.org booth #622 at the International Supercomputing
Conference, Frankfurt, Germany,
which runs through June 23.
For more information about the RapidIO technology, contact IDT
at SRIO@idt.com. For larger scaleout of the analytics platform used
at CERN openlab, 1U 19-inch rack scale solutions are available from
Prodrive Technologies (www.prodrive-technologies.com). More
information on related RapidIO analytics projects at IDT's Open
HPAC Lab can be found at
http://www.idt.com/landing/open-hpac-lab.
About IDT
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions
that optimize its customers' applications. IDT's market-leading
products in RF, timing, wireless power transfer, serial switching,
interfaces and sensing solutions are among the company's broad
array of complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications,
computing, consumer, automotive and industrial segments.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif.,
IDT has design, manufacturing, sales facilities and distribution
partners throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ
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