NextIO, a leader in the PCI Express-based I/O solution marketplace, today announced their NextIO ExpressConnect™ product suite now supports advanced numerical analysis, financial modeling, and vector processing functions. The support will enable resource and I/O pooling and expansion for data centers and other markets, such as the digital broadcast industry, financial services, and telecommunications. The announcement took place at the Next Generation Data Center Conference (NGDC), at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. NGDC is being held concurrently with the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, August 4-7 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

NextIO solutions deliver 100X performance over standard x86 I/O models at a fraction of the cost. Any dense computing environment that requires GPUs for financial or numerical analysis or vector processing can now use off-the-shelf hardware. Traditionally, these solutions require dedicated servers that are not only expensive but also may require additional installation, programming and maintenance.

The NextIO ExpressConnect products are end-to-end connectivity leveraging industry standard PCI Express (PCIe) technology. As an event sponsor, NextIO will be demonstrating the N1400-PCM High-Speed Switch Module and the N2800-ICA I/O Consolidation Appliance in the Blade.org booth, No 476 at the conference. In the demo, advanced vector processing and financial analysis functions will be offloaded to the GPU boards located inside the N2800-ICA.

“Much of the technology expected to have a direct impact on tomorrow’s data centers are actually here today,” said Chris Pettey, CTO and Co-founder of NextIO. “With NextIO, companies can leverage their current infrastructure assets that can result in immediate operational savings as well as improvements in manageability, while optimizing I/O performance and utilization.”

In addition, Chris Pettey is presenting twice on the Center Stage. His topic is “I/O Virtualization and Expansion: Yesterday's Promise; Today's Reality.” In this presentation, Pettey describes how shared I/O resources offer opportunities for their higher utilization and help servers reach greater efficiency, while dramatically cutting power requirements.

The N1400-PCM High-Speed Switch Module enables blade servers to expand their PCIe signals outside of the chassis. It delivers a combined 35Gbps of I/O throughput external to the chassis for connectivity to standard PCIe devices. The N2800-ICA enables flexible configuration of standard PCI Express devices for I/O expansion, partitioning, and virtualization. It offers up to 14 full-length, full-power PCI Express devices to be connected to and partitioned among multiple blade or rack servers.

For pricing and specifications, contact Jack LeWinter at 512-439-5354 or marketing@NextIO.com.