Myricom Inc.

• Private
• US

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Myricom is the leading global supplier of high-performance, high-availability, cluster interconnect, and a pioneer in the development of cluster computing. Clusters have become the dominant computer architecture for high performance and for high availability. The processors in today's desktop and server computers are individually so fast that the most cost-effective route to higher performance is to harness these computers to work together by teamwork. Clusters are also natural for high availability; when one computer is "down," other computers in the cluster can pick up its tasks. The Myrinet network architecture that Myricom introduced in 1994 is particularly efficient for clusters for two related reasons: (1) the use of processors and firmware in the network-interface cards (NICs) for protocol offload and for low-latency, kernel-bypass operation, and (2) economical, highly scalable, cut-through switching. There are today many thousands of Myrinet clusters in operation in more than 50 countries. These clusters range in size to more than 2,000 hosts. You will find Myrinet clusters used for high-performance computing (HPC) applications throughout the TOP500 supercomputer list (www.top500.org): 101 (20.2%) of the November-2005 TOP500 systems use Myrinet technology, far more than any other low-latency technology. Myrinet is also widely used in commercial and embedded-computing applications. ...

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