Sanmina-SCI announces InfiniBand technology product offerings

Sanmina-SCI Corporation (Nasdaq: SANM) introduces a line of production-ready designs/products employing InfiniBand switched fabric network technology. InfiniBand technology improves computing efficiency by increasing the bandwidth of computer, storage, and IO clusters and by offloading message processing from the system processors. Host Channel Adaptors (HCAs) and InfiniBand cables are the first products available from Sanmina-SCI, to be followed by switches, backplanes, chassis, and software enabling turnkey InfiniBand solutions for data centers and high performance technical computing applications.Sanmina-SCI's InfiniBand-based solutions are designed and tested to ensure enterprise quality performance for OEM solution providers."Through this offering, Sanmina-SCI will provide our Enterprise Computing OEM customers with the building blocks and system level solutions that will enable full scale deployment of InfiniBand technology," said Greg Thompson, Program Director for InfiniBand products. "In addition, Sanmina-SCI has established an OEM relationship with VIEO. VIEO offers the premier software suite for InfiniBand network infrastructure, to provide customers with a complete hardware and software system level solution.""Sanmina-SCI brings to the InfiniBand user community the resources and strength of a multi-billion dollar Tier 1 electronics design and manufacturing company," said Wendell Meeks, Vice President of Business Development for VIEO. "We are pleased to supply the end-to-end software that will enable Sanmina-SCI to provide reliable, high-performance InfiniBand products."Source: PCBnewsline