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Mellanox end-to-end 40GbE and FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand enables highest efficiency and flexibility to deliver best ROI for cloud services

Mellanox Technologies has announced that a major Asian cloud provider selected Supermicro servers and Mellanox’s Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) solution to form one of the world’s largest cloud solutions. Mellanox’s 40GbE NICs and switches, and FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand adapter and switches connect the 5,000-node based cloud, delivering the highest cloud performance, flexibility and simplicity.

“The new cloud cluster will provide computing capacity and storage on-demand, and will set the stage for the next generation cloud infrastructure based on Mellanox Virtual Protocol Interconnect technology,” said Marc Sultzbaugh, vice president of worldwide sales at Mellanox Technologies. “The cloud cluster will utilize Mellanox’s 40GbE and FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and switches, providing an optimal solution to accelerate a large-scale, multi-tenancy environment.”

“Supermicro’s high performance, energy efficient server and storage platforms enable rapid, scalable and cost-effective deployment of Cloud Computing and HPC environments,” said Tau Leng, general manager of High Performance Computing at Super Micro Computer, Inc. “Our longstanding relationship with Mellanox provides performance and time-to-market advantages with 40GbE, FDR 56Gb/s and future Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnectivity integrated into our solutions. Together we accelerate and simplify the growth and expansion of Cloud-based solutions for customers worldwide.”