Video: Mellanox Tips the Scales on the TOP500 with FDR InfiniBand

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In this video, Mellanox VP of Market Development Gilad Shainer discusses new product developments and how InfiniBand has grown to dominate the TOP500.

InfiniBand becoming the most used interconnect on the TOP500 is a significant milestone and achievement for Mellanox. We believe InfiniBand surpassing Ethernet in high-performance computing is a forward-looking sign that it will also become the interconnect of choice for cloud and Web 2.0 data centers, as they are all based on similar architecture concepts,” said Eyal Waldman, president, chairman and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “With the majority of the world’s Petaflop systems, as well as the top two most efficient systems on the list, Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40GbE interconnect solutions with PCI Express 3.0 provide the best return-on-investment with leading system efficiency without sacrificing performance.”

For product announcements at ISC’12, Mellanox rolled out ConnectIB, a foundation for Exascale interconnect technology that delivers throughput of 100Gb/s utilizing PCI Express 3.0 x16. Read the Full Story.