December 1, 2010
With the Voltaire acquisition in the works, Mellanox is set to deliver a serious blow to its only other InfiniBand competitor. Read more…
November 29, 2010
Voltaire shareholders got an early Christmas present this week. Mellanox Technologies has entered a definite agreement to acquire Voltaire Ltd. for a cash value of $8.75 per share, equivalent to approximately $218 million. The deal would represent the first major consolidation of InfiniBand vendors. Read more…
October 28, 2010
Chinese Tianhe-1A supercomputer exploits GPU power to deliver 2.5 petaflops; and Cray nabs a $60 million contract with the University of Stuttgart. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup. Read more…
April 20, 2010
The axis of datacenter networks is shifting and for companies like Arista Networks and other high performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch vendors, this is opportunity knocking. The North-South network traffic pattern of client-server computing that dominated the industry for so long is giving way to high performance East-West networks where server-to-server communication is paramount. Read more…
March 25, 2010
QLogic intros new pass-through module; Voltaire debuts MPI offload technology. Read more…
March 11, 2010
The ACM Turing Award goes to the creator of the modern personal computer; and Voltaire announces a mid-range InfiniBand switch and new technology that accelerates distributed applications. We recap those stories and more in our weekly wrapup. Read more…
January 26, 2010
Voltaire has announced the Grid Director 4036E, a new QDR InfiniBand switch that includes a built-in Ethernet gateway. As such, it acts as a network bridge that hooks together QDR InfiniBand and 10 GigE infrastructure, all implemented inside a 1U box. Read more…
August 4, 2009
Should Voltaire buy QLogic's InfiniBand business to counter Mellanox? Read more…
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