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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., the leading provider of InfiniBand™ technology, announced today that as of January 2004 more than 200,000 InfiniBand ports have been shipped to customers for a broad range of InfiniBand based applications. Surpassing this milestone indicates an increased rate of sales for Mellanox InfiniBand products as twice the number of ports were sold in the past six months than during the prior six months. "Adoption continues at an accelerating pace in all our markets," said Kevin Deierling, vice president of product marketing for Mellanox Technologies. "We are seeing great progress across the board including enterprise database, high performance computing (HPC), storage and embedded markets. A great example of this was the Teraflop-Off-The-Shelf InfiniBand cluster that Intel and Mellanox deployed on the show floor at Supercomputing 2003 Conference. This 192-node cluster demonstrated the ease of deployment and performance that InfiniBand offers for database and HPC clustering." Another example of the impact that InfiniBand has made is the Virginia Tech 1100-Node InfiniBand cluster that is ranked as the THIRD fastest performing computer in the world. This cluster delivers record performance at a record low price of only approximately $500K per TeraFlop. These results are achieved thanks to today's standard server technology and the ability of InfiniBand to deliver high performance and low latencies like no other interconnect. Historically, systems in the top few worldwide positions have cost millions of dollars per TeraFlop. During the past six months a number of major InfiniBand achievements have been announced that are fueling the accelerating growth trend: -- Oracle announces InfiniBand support for upcoming Oracle Database 10g -- IBM to resell Topspin Communications InfiniBand switches for use with IBM eServer, pSeries, zSeries, iSeries, and xSeries systems -- Intel demonstrates > 1 TeraFlop Xeon & InfiniBand cluster at SC2003 -- HP demonstrates InfiniBand over HPUX at SuperComputing 2003 -- Sun's HPTC group launches InfiniBand support -- Apple Computer Power Mac G5 powers the Virginia Tech Cluster -- NEC selects Topspin as InfiniBand Technology provider for HPC solutions -- Los Alamos Lab deploys a 256-Node InfiniBand cluster from LinuxNetworx -- Sandia National Labs deploys a 128-Node InfiniBand cluster from LinuxNetworx -- SGI announces they will use Voltaire products for clustering Altix 350 servers -- Voltaire and SBS Technologies deliver 24-Port 10Gb/sec InfiniBand switches at approximately $300 per port -- Fujitsu selects InfiniCon's InfiniBand switches for Japan's RIKEN 2,000-Node InfiniBand cluster