ACADEMIA

Mellanox I/O Solutions with PCI Express 3.0 Support Deliver World-Record Bandwidth and Latency Performance at Multiple, Large-Scale Deployments

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FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE Enables the Highest Bandwidth, Efficiency and Flexibility for Scalable HPC, Data Center and Web 2.0 Compute, Networking and Storage Infrastructures

Mellanox Technologies has announced that its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE I/O solutions, which lead the industry with unprecedented bandwidth (>12GB/s) and latency (<0.7us) performance with PCI Express 3.0 support, now accelerate multiple, large-scale system deployments. Mellanox I/O solutions deliver the highest level of application performance while reducing system power consumption, making it the preferred I/O solution for high-performance computing, financial services, database, Web 2.0, virtualized data centers and cloud computing centers worldwide.

“As we move down the path to exascale, interconnect performance becomes increasingly more important to achieving efficient performance for HPC server and storage systems,” said Rajeeb Hazra, general manager of Intel Technical Computing Group. “The introduction of PCI Express 3.0 in Mellanox's FDR InfiniBand solution and the Intel Xeon Processor E5 Family provides the bandwidth and latency improvements to deliver greater performance for our customers’ wide-range of workloads.”

“These impressive performance results reinforce Mellanox’s position as the leading industry provider of performance-based I/O solutions,” said Eyal Waldman, chairman, president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE I/O solutions are the industry’s only solutions that can perfectly match the performance potential of PCI Express 3.0-based server and storage systems. End-users can expect unprecedented application and job runtime benefits, as well as reduced infrastructure and power costs; an unbeatable combination.”

Availability

Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE I/O solutions, including ConnectX-3 adapter cards, passive copper and optical cables and SX1000 and SX6000-series switches, are available today. More information can be found at www.mellanox.com.

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