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ASUS Introduces Serverboard with Onboard Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Adapters
New Serverboard Platform Enables the Highest Bandwidth, Density, Efficiency and Flexibility for Scalable HPC, Web 2.0 and Converged Data Centers
Mellanox Technologies and ASUS have announced the new ASUS Z9PH-D16/FDR serverboard with integrated onboard Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand adapters. The half-sized SSI serverboard provides ultra-high density and increases I/O bandwidth, lowers application data latency, and improves green data center efficiency.
Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand I/O solution leads the industry with unprecedented bandwidth (>12GB/s) and latency (<0.7us) performance with PCI Express 3.0 support. Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand I/O delivers 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.
“The ASUS Z9PH-D16/FDR is ideal as the computing node, storage node in HPC and IP Data Center markets,” said Andrew Lynn, Ph.D, Senior Director of Server BU at ASUS. “Together with Mellanox’s I/O solution, ASUS aims to provide customers eminent design and extraordinary development of serverboards.”
“Mellanox’s industry and performance-leading FDR InfiniBand product line provides end-users with unprecedented application and job runtime benefits,” said David Barzilai, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “With onboard Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR InfiniBand adapters with support for PCI Express 3.0, ASUS’s new serverboard delivers exceptional computing power with leading density.
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- Learn more about Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s Copper and Fiber Cables
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