Dolphin Express software, called SuperSockets, provides a low latency 'sockets' interface which provides direct compatibility with Oracle RAC cluster. Dolphin Express SuperSockets supports any application using TCP/UDP/RDS/IP unmodified. Dolphin Express hardware consists of Dolphin developed ultra low latency interconnect modules that plug into PCI Express slots in standard servers supporting cost effective clusters from 2 to 100's of nodes.

The standard interfaces of Dolphin Express software insure complete software application compatibility while allowing for seamless evolution to faster and more powerful hardware technology over time. Dolphin Express leverages the industry's move to PCI Express and will provide direct connection to PCI Express IO devices, PCI Express Gen2 physical layer (5Gbps/lane), and PCI Express IOV technology.

Dolphin Express can deliver its outstanding performance for Oracle because it is especially designed to handle the type of data transfers predominant in Oracle applications. In Oracle most messages are very short - in the order of a few bytes only - and none are more than a few kilobytes. Therefore, the most important measure for the cluster interconnect performance is the bandwidth of short transfers. This is where the Dolphin Express technology excels due to the direct remote memory access (RMA) used for short messages where only a single CPU store operation is needed to send 8 bytes of data. No DMA set-up overhead and no protocol stack processing are required.

"As an Oracle Partner we are committed to providing Oracle database users access to the highest performance solutions for their business critical applications", stated Kare Lochsen, CEO of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions. "Dolphin is committed to being a major supplier of quality solutions to the enterprise marketplace by partnering with the leading enterprise server vendors and the world's leading supplier of database solutions to leverage the ultra-low latency and high throughput capabilities of our Dolphin Express technology."