Title: Interconnect Driven Server Architecture Speaker: Brian Hurley, CEO, Liquid Computing, Mike Kemp, CTO, Liquid Computing Date/Time: Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 10:00 – 11:00 am Location: Building 980 Room 95 (Sandia NM) Brief Abstract: Liquid Computing was founded in January 2003 with the business concept of bringing a new product to the HPC space using an Interconnect Driven Server (IDS) architecture. The founders of the company, who have backgrounds in both the Telecom and Computer industries, came to the conclusion that there is an untapped middle ground between high end expensive super-computers and commoditized grey box clusters. With the computing industry commoditizing high end processor technology, HPC is no longer just about computing but also very much about high performance and high availability communications. The LiquidIQ IDS architecture in its first release scales to 12 chassis, with each chassis supporting 20 compute modules, each with 4 AMD Opterons, 200Gbit/sec I/O and up to 16GByte/sec per compute module IPC bandwidth. While the prime focus of the LiquidIQ is computational performance, the other aspects of the platform, which have a heritage in the Telecom industry, bring new capabilities to the HPC market. These include, high availability, low TCO, resource virtualization, QOS, internal routing, and an autonomic control plane that provides continuous real time diagnostics, fault isolation and fault recovery. Brian Hurley, Liquid Computing's CEO will provide an overview of the company, and its business direction. Mike Kemp, Liquid Computing's CTO will be providing an overview of the LiquidIQ product technology and its "Interconnect Driven Server" (IDS) architecture. Mike will also talk about the product extensibility and discuss how the IDS platform architecture can scale to Petaflop class performance.CSRI POC: Kevin Pedretti, (505) 845-0536 |