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InfiniCon Corrals $15M Round: Page 3 of 3

InfiniCon, which was founded in June 2000, currently employs between 65 and 70 people, nearly all of whom work in R&D. The company’s latest funding round will largely be used to add to headcount in sales and marketing, Foley says.

Adding to the good tidings for InfiniCon today was the announcement that the company’s OEM partner Fujitsu Ltd. (OTC: FJTSY) will use the new InfinIO 3000 switches for a 512-node cluster of its newly developed Linux-based Primergy servers, deployed by Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) to accelerate biotechnology research (see InfiniCon Shrinks Switches). The InfiniCon switches will provide the nodes with 10-Gbit/s, full bisectional bandwidth fabric (FBB).

The cluster will be the largest InfiniBand cluster ever deployed, Foley says, claiming that this deal alone will bring InfiniCon's revenues into the vicinity of $1 million. Hey, just a few dozen more deals like this and it's all gravy!

— Eugénie Larson, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch