November 18, 2008 Obsidian Strategics delivering a trans-continental encrypted InfiniBand link for NASA: ... new Longbow device capable of supporting range-extended InfiniBand, inter-subnet routing and an open standards based encryption engine more
November 17, 2008 Obsidian Strategics™ and ADVA Optical Networking Partner To Offer First 100G/bits DWDM InfiniBand Network Link: ... The Obsidian-ADVA Optical Networking technology combination offers this same performance over tens of kilometers — scaling to up to 80 4X SDR InfiniBand links through a single dedicated fiber pair. more
November 17, 2008 Obsidian Strategics Launches Longbow C Series Products: The initial Longbow C Series line-up is flexible, comprising models optimized for network links of up to 300m, 2km, 10km or 40km. A fifth model is specifically targeted for use with WDM equipment. more
November 12, 2008 Obsidian Strategics adds Longbows to enhance the Mellanox HPC Advisory Council Cluster Center: "Obsidian's range-extension, routing and encryption technologies complement and enhance Mellanox's industry-leading adapter and switch solutions, which can now be leveraged in many new and important application spaces." more
November 12, 2008 Obsidian Strategics Collaborates with QLogic to Create Seamless InfiniBand Networking Solutions: Obsidian is pleased to announce sponsorship of the QLogic NETtrack Developer Center facility by contributing X series and C series Longbows more
November 12, 2008 Light-speed computer connection will slash the time it takes TGen-ASU to transfer huge amounts of genetic data: High-speed link will position collaborators as leaders in biomedical data analysis more
November 3, 2008 ASU and Obsidian Collaboration Will Boost Bandwidth Over Existing Optical Networks: "The partnership with Obsidian places us at the cutting edge of high bandwidth computing" more
October 23, 2008 Obsidian Longbow Technology in the Naval Research Laboratory's Large Data JCTD: "The program is on track to achieve its primary demonstration goals due in no small part to the use of the Obsidian Longbow XR and the Longbow Campus devices" more
August 26, 2008 DICE and Obsidian Partner to Enhance HPC Industry Capabilities: "The Longbow has proven itself to be a world-class technology" more
June 17, 2008 InfiniBand connections to 50km without performance degradation: ADVA Optical Networking, Obsidian Strategics and Voltaire have partnered to deliver a complete InfiniBand-over-distance solution for HPC and enterprise applications. more
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 more
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. more
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" more
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). more
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" more
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. more
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. more
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 more
November 13, 2006 Obsidian Longbow Delivers InfiniBand Storage across University of Florida's Campus and WAN Links: UF's InfiniBand Cluster and Rackable Systems Clustered File System Achieve over 950 MB/s Transfers via WAN Link more
November 13, 2006 Visualization Where You Need It: At Supercomputing '06, the premiere conference for High Performance Computing, Tungsten Graphics, Obsidian Research and Cisco are showing attendees how they can create real-time, interactive visualization solutions across a campus or around the world more
November 13, 2006 NASA Demonstrates Cross-Country Visualization Application Using Obsidian Longbows: Obsidian Research Corporation, the leader in InfiniBand range extension, helps NASA bring the power of its top-rated Columbia supercomputer to SC|06 by using the Obsidian Longbow XR to transparently extend the benefits of its InfiniBand network across a 6,400 km 10GE Wide-Area Network (WAN). more
September 21, 2006 Obsidian Longbows to drive High-Performance Storage across the University of Florida Campus: The University of Florida's High-Performance Computing (HPC) initiative just got a big boost in bandwidth thanks to Obsidian's Longbow InfiniBand range extending technology. more
July 24, 2006 7.5 megapixel image updating at 20 frames/second over a 2 km InfiniBand connection: A breakthrough in performance thanks to new technology brought together by Cisco Systems, Tungsten Graphics and Obsidian. more
March 27, 2006 ASU to Roll Out Obsidian Long Haul InfiniBand Technology: Arizona State University's Fulton High Performance Computing Institute, in collaboration with Obsidian Longbow LP and Cisco Systems, is proud to be the first to deploy the Longbow InfiniBand range extending technology for campus grid applications. more
November 15, 2005 Joint Industry and Government Initiative to Demonstrate Long Distance InfiniBand at SC/05: Cisco Systems, Inc., Intel Corporation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Microsoft, Naval Research Laboratory, Obsidian Research, the OpenIB Alliance and Qwest Communications today announced they are demonstrating extended computing resources using InfiniBand technology as part of SCinet at SC|05. more
November 9, 2005 OpenIB Showcases InfiniBand: The OpenIB Alliance today announced that nearly thirty organizations are confirmed to showcase the world's largest, cross-continental InfiniBand data center more