Pathscale certifies Supermicro AMD Opteron board

NEW AMD customer Supermicro has had one of its Opteron board certified by Pathscale as suitable for its Infiniband adaptor.

Pathscale said that the four socket H8QCBE system board had been certified using a number of HPC applications. Pathscale and Supermicro are showing off their products at Linux World this week.

Pathscale is offering the Infinipath HTX Infiniband adaptor as part of the demonstration. Pathscale claimed the Supermicro board is the industry's first Opteron mobo that supports Hypertransport HTX.

Supermicro's Tau Leng said his firm had added HTX capabilities to its four socket boards to support Pathscale and other firms' HTX cards.

He said: "This is strong evidence of Supermicro's technology leadership in the AMD Opteron market."

The significance of the tie up is that integrators will be able to implement Linux clusters consisting of hundreds to thousands of nodes with up to eight processors each based on AMD's dual core Opterons, said Pathscale.

Pathscale chief operating officer Art Goldberg said: "Supermicro is a real innovator in this market segment and therefore an ideal OEM server board supplier for the 27 AMD Opteron system providers around the glove that are currently re-selling the Pathscale Infinipath Infiniband interconnect."

The H8QC8E system board with support for standard Hypertransport HTX will be available in September. µ