High Performance Products Overview

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High Performance Products Overview

• High Performance Products for 2001
• John Freisinger
• Vice President of Sales and Marketing

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Agenda

• A GSN Application
• GSN Products
• Future Products

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A GSN Application HDTV Facility
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HDTV POST REALITIES

• HD solutions today - are non real-time!
• Computers provide relatively affordable
  multi-format HD Solutions
• Acceptable workflow today, optimized HD workflow
  tomorrow, UPGRADES required
• Maintain non-linear creative Model
• Data networking is a viable alternative to HDTV
  routers - workflow ideology shift

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How BIG is HDTV(in MegaBYTES per second)
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How do we move this data?

• At 186 MB/sec for 1080i and 90 MB/sec for 720p -
  large Bandwidth Networks and I/O pipes will be
  required.
• NT - does not address this with PCI bus speeds
  and limited Network I/O card solutions.
• HIPPI and Gigabit Ethernet do not fully address
  this either.
• Only GSN (HIPPI 6400) allows for real time,
  uncompressed transport of HDTV- a MUST for post
  production and broadcast facilities

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Data Networking(In MegaBYTES per second)
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GSN Products

• Essentials GSN Products for 2001

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ESN-10000 32 Port 6400 Switch

• ESN-10000 Features
• 32 full duplex 8 Gigabit/s per port 512 Gbps
• 14 Switches Delivered as of 12/00
• Protocols Supported
• - HIPPI-6400-PH (Physical Layer) - HIPPI-6400-SC
  (Switch Control) - ST (Scheduled Transfer)
• Hotswappable Ports, Redundant Power Supplies

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ESN-8000 8 Port GSN Switch

• Released at SC 2000 in Dallas TX
• Only UL, CE, EMI-compliant GSN switch currently
  on the market
• 8 single GSN ports for scalability
• Redundant power supplies
• Less than 50,000 fully configured

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GSN PCI NIC

• 4X PCI GSN adapter
• mid 2001 release
• Linux, NT, IRIX, Solaris, etc
• Hardware (ASIC) implementation of ST
• Low CPU utilization low latency
• Adapter multiplex/demultiplex of data stream for
  zero copy model ... Allows for striping

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ESN-9200 8-Port GSN Switch

• Scheduled for release in Q1 of 2002
• 8-port switch supporting full 48bit ULA
• Supports broadcast and auto-discovery
• Planned bridging ports for HIPPI and ATM
• Supports LANL-yzer

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Whats Next at Essential?
SM
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InfiniBand Benefits

• Performance, bandwidth
• Scalability
• Distance
• RAS
• Single interconnect standard
• Supports OS bypass
• Widely accepted

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Emerging High Performance Networking Alternatives
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Where does InfiniBand fit?
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InfiniBand Adoption
80
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Servers
InfiniBand-enabled Servers
Source IDC
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Essentials InfiniBand Advantages

• First to Market with HCAs and Switches
• Unique customer base of Early Adopters
• Entire IBTA will be interested in first
  end-customer successes
• Early Driver support
• All major Unix and Linux
• IP over IB
• VIPL Support
• FP over IB
• Essential IB offerings are positioned to attack
  other niche interconnect markets (e.g., Myrinet,
  SCI)

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Infiniband Product Development
2Q01
1Q01
3Q01
4Q01
1Q02
2 port (1X) NIC
Additional Drivers

2 port (1X) SuperNIC 1
2 port (1X) SuperNIC 2
2 port (1X) SuperNIC 3
8 port (1X) Switch
Scaleable Multi-port Switch
L7 Based Router
2000/800 based B/Router
NI
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IB-Now HCA

• Release in Early Q3 of 2001
• Drivers for Linux and Unix platforms
• 4x PCI HCA
• 3.3 and 5.0V
• 500MB/sec
• (2) 1x IB ports
• Individual or Failover
• IB Subnet Manager or Static Configuration
• Supports IP over IB
• Support for VIA and FP over IB

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IB-NOW Switch

• Will be Shown at Spring NI in May 2001
• (8) 1X IB Ports
• Copper Connectors
• No Subnet Manager Processor

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IB-2000 HCA

• Release in Q4 of 2001
• Drivers for Linux and Unix platforms
• Support for same transports and protocols
• No driver modification
• Firmware is backward compatible to IB-NOW
• Fabric Based HCA
• Supports Add-on Modules
• First Module is an On-Board Subnet Manager

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IB-3000 HCA

• Release in Q3 of 2002
• PCI-X, 3.3 volt
• 1GB/sec
• (2) 4X Ports
• One 4x and (1) fail-over
• One 4x and up to (3) add-on cards and 1x
  fail-over
• Utilize same software as predecessors
• Supports Add-on Modules from HCA-2000
• Application modules (Web Servers, etc.)

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IB-TCA 3000

• Available in Q1 of 2002
• GigE to InfiniBand gateway
• (2) GigE Ports
• 1x or 4x IB ports
• Resident Subnet Management Agent
• Support for Subnet Manager
• Wire Speed Mapping
• Support for QoS and IP over IB

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Switch Matrix
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Chassis Matrix
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Chassis Matrix (Cont.)