IBM Supercomputer Employs Emcore Connects Cables

PASADENA, Calif., Jun 23, 2008 (ASCRIBE NEWS via COMTEX) -- IBM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Emcore, a provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, announced that its optical fiber Emcore Connects Cables (ECC) are being used by IBM on the DOE computer nicknamed Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break the petaflop computing barrier.

Emcore Connects Cables are InfiniBand interconnects that operate at 20 Gb/s data rates with and Bit Error rate of 10(-15). IBM chose Emcore Connects Cables for Roadrunner, the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration funded High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that will be housed at it's Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Stephen Krasulick, VP and General Manager of Emcore's Digital Products division said, "Two years of diligent work between the Emcore Connects Cables team and IBM have made the era of petaflop computing a reality." Krasulick added, "Emcore is proud to play a part in this computing milestone and to have our optical fiber Emcore Connects Cables be the InfiniBand interconnect on the world's fastest supercomputer."

Emcore demonstrated a 40 Gb/s Emcore Connects Cable in conjunction with Mellanox Technologies at the International Supercomputing conference in Dresden. Emcore Connects Cables currently support both 20 Gb/s Double Data Rate (DDR) and 10 Gb/s Single Data Rate (SDR) and are available in lengths from 1 to 100 meters, the company noted in a release .

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