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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 InfiniBand Switches and Adapter Cards
• Learn more about Mellanox Switch Management and Acceleration Software
• Learn more about Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s Copper and Fiber Cables
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