Applications
High Performance Computing
Woven Systems™ makes it easier to build High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster systems with its 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) fabric switching architecture. Optimized for ultra-low latency and scale, the Woven solution allows multiple Ethernet switches to interconnect to form a scalable 10 GE fabric. HPC system designers can now achieve ultra-high performance without compromising compatibility.
Improved Performance
Woven integrates your storage and computing resources on a single, scalable, high-performance fabric to eliminate the difficulties imposed by proprietary interconnects. For instance, heavy traffic loads create congestion and poor performance in underlying transport networks. If the network node fails, applications running on the fabric could fail because the fabric topology mapping changes, requiring remapping to the subnet manager. Network re-tuning to accommodate a new application is usually a manual, time-consuming process and in many cases too difficult to achieve.
Woven uses its single high-performance 10 GE fabric to connect storage and computing such that standard TCP/IP applications and services can run at high performance. Plus, Woven’s unique vSCALE™ technology continuously measures one-way latency and jitter, and dynamically re-balances traffic to faster paths without dropping or re-ordering packets.
Traffic Partitioning
Woven also makes it easier to balance storage, computing, and interconnect resources for HPC applications. If a particular application requires higher network bandwidth, the Woven Fabric can be partitioned to guarantee resources for that application.
Faster System Deployment
Although HPC system designers increasingly use commodity-based hardware to reduce costs and deploy systems faster, the underlying interconnect networks continue to introduce unnecessary complexity, which slows system deployment. Woven reduces new deployment schedules because using a standards-based Ethernet fabric greatly simplifies building new clusters.