Product Announcement
24 June 2004

Myrinet Switches for Large Clusters

Myricom announced at the International Supercomputer Conference in Heidelberg a new series of Myrinet switches for large clusters. The switch pictured to the right has 512 ports, 256 host ports plus 256 interswitch ports. Other configurations of these products include a standalone 256-host full-bisection Clos network, and a spine switch with up to 1280 ports.

Here is some material that describes these new products:

• ISC2004 one-page handout (pdf, 1.2MB)
• Seven slides from the ISC "hot-seat" presentation by David PeGan (pdf, 3.2MB). These slides include diagrams showing topologies for large clusters.
• Myricom's press release on this product announcement (txt, 3.4KB)

[5 October 2004] Technical specifications are available here. Additional technical documentation is in preparation.

24 June 2004 updated 5 October 2004