hi john, we've been advised by fujitsu and others to check out solarflare NIC's.
i've been talking to solarflare CTO Steve Pope, and he has introduced us to some high powered engineers there, and they seem enthusiastic to work with us. best wishes, dan On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:48 AM, John Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > This looks pretty cool... > > > *** HPC News *** > > Solarflare turns network adapters into servers > When a CPU just isn't fast enough > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/08/solarflare_application_onload_engine/ > > Solarflare, a maker of 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapter cards for > performance-obsessed companies like stock exchanges, hedge funds, and > supercomputer centers, is turning its network interface cards into > servers, more or less. > > Solarflare is doing this by adding field programmable gate arrays > (FPGAs) to the NICs and special software to onload calculations and > algorithms from servers to those FPGAs. > > ---- > > >
