High Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions

HPC is best known for its historical roots in research and engineering applications. But there's increasing evidence that these high-speed clusters are getting wider use for more traditional enterprise applications like data warehousing, line-of-business (LOB) applications and transaction processing.

HPC environments are migrating to 10 Gigabit Ethernet as a way to reduce or control costs without sacrificing a single CPU cycle of performance. Ethernet's ubiquity, lower costs, security consciousness and ease of management convey plenty of advantages to HPC installations over other data center technologies.

User demands on storage resources—and storage networks' impact on the overall enterprise network can also be addressed inside the HPC cloud with Gigabit Ethernet. The issue here is volume: Few if any organizations report they're backing up or archiving less data. By using Gigabit Ethernet switches as the basis for a storage network, HPC clusters glean speed and management benefits that aid storage applications and remove bottlenecks.

The comprehensive suite of products and support services in Brocade HPC solutions can help build a robust, scalable, and highly available network infrastructure for the expanding and evolving needs of HPC applications, grid computing, and cluster networking. The Brocade proven solution is behind some of the most advanced HPC sites in the world, including close to 25 percent of the Top500.org HPC sites.