[Macpartners] QLogic 4Gb Fibre Channel and fastest cluster interconnect (InfiniPath)

[Mateja Miljacki]

QLogic Showcases High Performance Fibre Channel and InfiniBand  
Adapters for Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor-Based Servers
Tuesday September 26, 8:00 am ET


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM --  
QLogic(r) Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC - News), the leader in Fibre Channel  
host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server  
switches, today is demonstrating its SANblade(r) QLE2460 4Gb Fibre  
Channel HBAs, the fastest HBAs for the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon  
Processor 5100 Series, along with other members of the Intel IHV  
Optimization Community at this year's Intel Developer Forum. QLogic  
is also demonstrating interoperability between its InfiniPath(r)  
InfiniBand adapters and Ethernet networks running the OpenFabrics  
Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.0 for Linux-based data center fabrics.

``The new Dual-Core Intel(r) Xeon(r) processor-based platform, based  
on Intel's power-optimized micro-architecture, offers significantly  
improved performance and greatly reduced power consumption,'' said  
Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel Corporation.  
``Optimizing technologies such as Fibre Channel and InfiniBand for  
the new dual-core platform ultimately enables customers to operate  
more efficiently and effectively.''
In side-by-side testing on the new dual-core Intel Xeon platform,  
SANblade QLE2460 Series HBAs achieved a dramatic 155,000 I/Os per  
second per port, 76 percent more than the company's primary  
competitor which performed at 75,000 I/Os per second per port. The  
QLogic HBA delivered 780MB/second per port in full-duplex mode on the  
dual-core Intel Xeon platform, 18 percent higher than the rating  
achieved by the closest competitor.

``QLogic offers a full suite of networking and storage interconnect  
products that empower a new generation of grid computing,'' said  
Frank Berry, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. ``We have been  
working with Intel to exploit the combined computing power of Fibre  
Channel and InfiniBand solutions with the dual-core Intel Xeon  
processor-based platform.''

Also optimized for the dual-core Intel platform, QLogic InfiniPath  
InfiniBand adapters use the unique QLogic HyperMessaging Architecture 
(tm), which delivers the industry's highest message rate and highest  
effective bandwidth. InfiniPath supports more than 10 million  
messages per second, which is dramatically higher than the message  
rate of any other cluster interconnect.

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Mateja.