SP Switch brought to Netfinity to serve as a high-speed interconnect switch for server clustering

 Somers 14 Oct 99 The SP Switch enables customers to implement scalable Windows NT cluster solutions to increase availability and performance. Future implementations will include support for interoperability with RS/6000 SP servers. Based on the successful RS/6000 technology, the SP Switch is a key component of the Netfinity 'Cornhusker' solution: a Windows NT based clustering solution that allows up to eight server nodes to be interconnected together wit ith up to 33.6 Gb/s of data throughput

The SP Switch comes armed with redundant fans, power supplies, switch cards and an integrated service processor -- a computer within the switch. These high availability features, have become the signature of the Netfinity product family.

"High Availability is critical for customers running enterprise e-business solutions," said James Gargan, Director of Netfinity Product Marketing. "By leveraging our mainframe heritage into our Netfinity products, we are able to offer the highest levels of availability on the Intel platform."

IBM Netfinity SP Switch: A High bandwidth, low latency, non-blocking switch fabric unit with up to 2.4Gb/s concurrent send and receive (per port). Other features include:

-- Eight standard ports, upgradable to 14 with an optional 2nd switch card

-- Redundant subsystems including fans, power supplies and optional switch cards

-- Integrated service processor support with management alert notification

-- Control panel user interface with alpha numeric display for switch information

IBM Netfinity SP Host Adapter: An industry standard 32-bit PCI adapter developed by the RS/6000 server group. Features include:

-- An Integrated 603e Power PC processor

-- A total bi-directional bandwidth of 2.4Gb/s

Current Netfinity SP Switch clustering solutions include:

-- Netfinity Availability Extensions for MSCS -- codenamed 'Cornhusker'

-- Netfinity Advanced Cluster Enabler for OPS

-- IBM DB2 Universal Database EEE

 

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