Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Powers Fastest Supercomputer in India

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This week Mellanox announced that India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is using the company’s end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions for PARAM Yuva – II, the fastest supercomputer in India. As the premier R&D organization of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, C-DAC chose Mellanox’s robust, high-speed interconnect solution due to its performance, scalability, low power consumption, and high-efficiency data handling.

C-DAC’s HPC programs are focused towards creating an eco-system to derive full benefits from HPC systems to address grand challenge problems and advancing fundamental science, research and industrial competitiveness,” said Dr. Pradeep Sinha, Senior Director, High Performance Computing at C-DAC. “Utilizing Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solutions, the new PARAM Yuva – II cluster can provide our users with superior application performance to further research and development.”

The 360 Teraflop Yuva II was built in conjunction with Netweb Technologies using Tyrone-based servers. Read the Full Story.