Case Study
Arista Selected for ECMWF Critical and Extensible Network Infrastructure
arista.com Case Study Highlights Challenge The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts needed to ensure its network layer was not a bottleneck for advanced research and weather prediction on upgraded supercomputer clusters. Solutions • Arista 7500-E Family Switches • Arista EOS® Results • Arista Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation, with Virtual ARP , enables highest levels of resiliency for 24/7 operation • Flexible Arista EOS allows custom on-switch scripting to support supercomputer network node failover • Multi-process state sharing architecture allows incremental software updates without affecting the state of the system for improved uptime • Arista network infrastructure provides high performance and low latency access to the largest meteorological data archive