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November 8, 2007
Obsidian Re-Brands to Obsidian Strategics and Launches Washington D.C.-based Obsidian Federal
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Obsidian, the leader in InfiniBand range extension and creators of the Longbow series of products, today announced a corporate reorganization aimed at accelerating market fulfillment and corporate growth
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November 7, 2007
NASA Joins with Obsidian to Demonstrate AES InfiniBand Encryption over 10Gigabit Ethernet at Full Line-Rate
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This demonstration unveils a new Longbow platform, "Enterprise", that integrates InfiniBand range extension over global 10Gigabit Ethernet WANs, routing and now full line-rate AES cryptography into a compact 1U package.
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November 6, 2007
Obsidian Longbow InfiniBand Range Extending Routers Enable a 20Gbits/s Military Prototype Network at Supercomputing 2007
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"Obsidian's Longbow XRs support sustained line-rate transport of huge data files over great distances ... Several Longbow XR units have sustained continuous 24/7 traffic flows in the field since power-on in late 2006"
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November 1, 2007
Ames Laboratory Demonstrates Ultra-Fast PVFS Transport Across BOREAS and Internet2 using Obsidian Longbow InfiniBand Routers
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Researcher Troy Benjegerdes is demonstrating reliable bulk data transport between remote InfiniBand subnets using the open-source Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS).
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October 31, 2007
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Tests the Limits of Long-Haul InfiniBand over UltraScienceNet using Obsidian Longbow Range Extenders
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"Using InfiniBand's Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), we found we could stream data across all 8,600 miles of USN with an essentially flat bandwidth-distance curve, right out of the box. To see this kind of plug-and-play performance with no in-situ tuning, and independent of distance, is in striking contrast to normal network performance"
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October 30, 2007
Obsidian Longbow InfiniBand Routers Enable the World's Most Advanced High Performance InfiniBand Network at Supercomputing 2007
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Obsidian, the leader in InfiniBand range extension, will deploy more than 20 Longbows including - the first InfiniBand devices with routing capability - within SCinet's OpenFabric network to pass full line-rate InfiniBand traffic between three separate subnets arranged in a chain.
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October 29, 2007
Avetec's DICE Program Funds The Ohio State University for In-Depth Study of Wide Area InfiniBand using Obsidian Longbow Range Extenders
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Longbow XRs will be the subject of a recently awarded Data Intensive Compute Environment (DICE) project to be performed by Prof. DK Panda of Ohio State University and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratories.
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July 23, 2007
NASA Deploys Obsidian Longbow Campus Solutions to Extend Its Columbia Supercomputer across Multiple Locations
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Longbow Campus products have enabled NASA to relocate 15% (1,536 processors) of its high-ranking SGI® Altix® - based Columbia Supercomputer to another facility and seamlessly connect both locations without any performance degradation