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Mellanox Technologies Demonstrates High-Performance Linux Clustering at LinuxWorld Expo

Posted on: Monday, 4 August 2003, 06:00 CDT

Mellanox(R) Technologies Ltd., the leader in InfiniBand(TM) silicon, will demonstrate how the InfiniBand Architecture, in conjunction with industry-standard servers and the Linux operating system, is the new standard for clustering. The combination sets a new standard for high-performance Linux clustering as it provides more flexibility, scalability, reliability and higher performance at lower price points.

In the High Performance Computing (HPC) market, InfiniBand is the choice of many new high-profile HPC clusters this summer. Some of the institutions that are working to deploy InfiniBand and Linux clusters include: The University of Texas, Texas A&M, Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), Sandia National Labs, Mississippi State University and The University of Utrecht. The Los Alamos cluster has the potential to become one of the top 100 fastest supercomputers in the world, once deployed. Also notable is the previously reported Linux Networx 64-Node InfiniBand cluster that delivered over 500 GFlops of processing power. This modest and unoptimized test cluster (if deployed and test results submitted) would rank in the top 200 supercomputers.

In the database market, Oracle(R) has published impressive performance data for Linux and InfiniBand clustering and has announced InfiniBand support for their next major database release. Low-level Oracle tests with InfiniBand clusters have shown significantly higher bandwidth, lower latency and better CPU utilization than traditional networking technology. Also, the DB2(R) Integrated Cluster Environment for Linux provides customers with a high-performance data management system that can scale to thousands of nodes in an InfiniBand clustered Linux environment.

On the open source development front the Linux SourceForge InfiniBand access layer effort is enabling a complete code base (infiniband.sourceforge.net) for InfiniBand and continues to show excellent results. These events along with continued industry support for InfiniBand and Linux is establishing InfiniBand as the flexible, scalable and future-proof solution for high-performance Linux clustering.

"Industry standard InfiniBand is delivering 10Gb/sec performance today and doing it in record fashion," said Michael Kagan, vice president of software and architecture at Mellanox. "At LinuxWorld we will show our 96-Port switch design that has a total bandwidth of nearly 2 Terabits/sec. We know of no other switch, of any transport, that can match this total bandwidth. Also, Mellanox Silicon is delivering a record MPI data bandwidth of over 850 MB/s with superb latencies. For these reasons, along with InfiniBand's low cost, Mellanox expects that clusters built from Intel standard servers, Linux, and InfiniBand will continue to make dramatic impacts on both, the HPC and database markets, and become the new standard in clustering."

Mellanox will demonstrate this powerful combination of technologies at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in booth #1770 from Aug 5-7, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

About InfiniBand Architecture

InfiniBand Architecture is the only 10 Gb/sec ultra low latency clustering, communication, storage and embedded interconnect in the market today. InfiniBand, based on an industry standard, provides the most robust data center interconnect solution available with reliability, availability, serviceability and manageability features designed from the ground up. These parameters greatly reduce total cost of ownership for the data center. Low-cost InfiniBand silicon that supports 10 Gb/sec RDMA transfers is shipping today providing eight times the bandwidth of Ethernet and three times the bandwidth of proprietary clustering interconnects. With an approved specification for 30 Gb/sec, InfiniBand is at least a generation ahead of competing fabric technologies today and in the foreseeable future.

About Mellanox

Mellanox is the leading supplier of InfiniBand semiconductors, providing complete solutions including switches, host channel adapters, and target channel adapters to the server, communications, data storage, and embedded markets. Mellanox Technologies has delivered more than 100,000 InfiniBand ports over two generations of 10 Gb/sec InfiniBand devices including the InfiniBridge, InfiniScale and InfiniHost devices. Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect solutions today provide over eight times the performance of Ethernet, and over three times the performance of proprietary interconnects. The company has strong backing from corporate investors including Dell, IBM, Intel Capital, Quanta Computers, Sun Microsystems and Vitesse, as well as strong venture backing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Raza Venture Management, Sequoia Capital, US Venture Partners and others. The company has major offices located in Santa Clara, CA, and Yokneam and Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit www.mellanox.com.

Mellanox is a registered trademark of Mellanox Technologies and InfiniBridge, InfiniHost and InfiniScale are trademarks of Mellanox.

InfiniBand is a registered trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand Trade Association. All other trademarks are claimed by their respective owners.

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