Virident secures Intel QuickPath interconnect license

MILPITAS, USA: Virident Systems, a pioneer in next-generation server platforms for the internet data center, announced that Intel Corp. has granted the company a license to the cache coherent Intel QuickPath Interconnect. Virident will use Intel QuickPath Technology to develop next generation GreenCloud servers for the growing x86 server market.

The Intel QuickPath Interconnect license allows Virident to support Intel Xeon processor-based servers in Virident’s soon-to-be unveiled line of GreenCloud server products. The license is a major milestone in Virident's strategy to deliver a fundamental enhancement in the core system building block for ‘scale-out’ infrastructures in the Internet data center and Cloud Computing.

"Being granted a license for the Intel QuickPath Interconnect is a vote of confidence in Virident’s approach to cloud-based servers, and it underscores the market potential for our platform," said Raj Parekh, CEO of Virident Systems. "Intel QuickPath Technology, which has very high bandwidth and low latency, is the ideal connection point for our GreenGateway Architecture. Virident will support PCIe and Intel QPI on servers running on Intel Xeon processors, providing high performance interconnects on the industry’s leading server architecture, with PCIe products beginning in 2009. The Intel QuickPath Architecture will help Virident and our partners deliver on our promise of servers that are both cost and energy efficient yet optimized for the performance demands of Internet applications.”

In June 2008, Virident announced its GreenGateway Architecture, a building block for a new class of high performance, scalable, cost and energy efficient servers for applications in the data center cloud. Systems based on the Virident platform will deliver substantial improvements in scalability, performance, and energy savings with server consolidation.

In a recent study by Frost & Sullivan, it is estimated that a typical server farm of 5,000 32GB DRAM servers could be reduced to 1,250 128GB non-volatile memory-based servers resulting in a 75 percent reduction in energy over four years, a 75 percent reduction in the cost of physical space and a 45 percent reduction in overall capital expenditures, making servers built with the Virident GreenGateway architecture the answer to the call for green data centers without hampering demands for growth.

“Virident’s licensing of Intel QuickPath Technology enables the company to create solutions for Intel processor-based servers that balance price, performance, and energy efficiency,” said Dylan Larson, director, Server Software and Technology Initiatives, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel. “With Intel QuickPath Technology providing the foundation for future generations of Intel microprocessors, the groundwork is in place for continued innovation on the industry’s platform of choice.”