Obsidian Strategics

November 8, 2007 Obsidian Re-Brands to Obsidian Strategics and Launches Washington D.C.-based Obsidian Federal: 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
November 7, 2007 NASA Joins with Obsidian to Demonstrate AES InfiniBand Encryption over 10Gigabit Ethernet at Full Line-Rate: 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.
November 6, 2007 Obsidian Longbow InfiniBand Range Extending Routers Enable a 20Gbits/s Military Prototype Network at Supercomputing 2007: "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"
November 1, 2007 Ames Laboratory Demonstrates Ultra-Fast PVFS Transport Across BOREAS and Internet2 using Obsidian Longbow InfiniBand Routers: Researcher Troy Benjegerdes is demonstrating reliable bulk data transport between remote InfiniBand subnets using the open-source Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS).
October 31, 2007 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Tests the Limits of Long-Haul InfiniBand over UltraScienceNet using Obsidian Longbow Range Extenders: "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"
October 30, 2007 Obsidian Longbow InfiniBand Routers Enable the World's Most Advanced High Performance InfiniBand Network at Supercomputing 2007: 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.
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: 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.
July 23, 2007 NASA Deploys Obsidian Longbow Campus Solutions to Extend Its Columbia Supercomputer across Multiple Locations: 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