ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Sept. 18, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, today announced it has partnered with industry leaders to establish the QLogic(r) NETtrack(tm) Developer Center, designed by QLogic to enable companies to build HPC "test tracks" for customers and vendors to test drive their applications on the latest processor, networking and storage technologies. Customers and partners can learn more about the QLogic NETtrack Developer Center at http://www.qlogic.com/DeveloperCenter/netTrackDevelopersCenter.aspx.
"Recognizing the challenges faced by end users, QLogic sees the pressing need for solutions that are complete, well supported, and tuned," said Jie Wu, research manager, technical computing, IDC. "By building an HPC ecosystem with key industry players on board, QLogic is taking a holistic approach to address some of the major issues facing the market such as interoperability and consistency of the technologies, performance optimization of the applications and support services."
"This is the first InfiniBand development center to combine HPC technologies from this many leading technology partners," said Joe Kimpler, director of business alliances, QLogic Corp. "We now have the ability to test for interoperability and performance optimization with InfiniBand-based high performance clusters ranging in sizes up to 256 cores."
"The QLogic NETtrack Developer Center enables us to work with major processor and interconnect vendors to fine tune and maximize our performance across a range of HPC hardware and OS solutions," said David Vaughn, director, Aerospace and Defense Industry Sector, CD-adapco. "This center provides a truly collaborative environment that fosters the development, testing and deployment of optimal solutions for end-user customers."
QLogic NETtrack Developer Center
The QLogic NETtrack Developer Center is designed to provide QLogic customers and alliance partners with the "test tracks" and engineering staff to "test drive" interoperability and optimize performance with the latest server, networking and storage technology.
InfiniBand Networking Powered By QLogic
QLogic offers a comprehensive end-to-end product portfolio of HPC solutions which includes multi-protocol fabric directors, edge fabric switches, host channel adapters (HCAs), and a complete set of fabric management tools to install, operate, and maintain InfiniBand fabrics. QLogic InfiniBand HCAs deliver the industry's highest message rate, lowest MPI latency and highest effective bandwidth so that MPI and TCP applications can go faster and scale higher. QLogic's comprehensive line of InfiniBand director and edge switches incorporates the industry's only fabric management tools that enable an administrator to install and boot an InfiniBand fabric in minutes.
About QLogic
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre Channel adapters, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI adapters and iSCSI routers. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies such as Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.
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