University of Tokyo Selects Mellanox EDR InfiniBand

Today Mellanox announced that the University of Tokyo has selected the company’s Switch-IB 2 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Switches and ConnectX-4 adapters to accelerate its new supercomputer for computational science.

Mellanox Showcases Switch-IB 2 on the Road to Exascale at SC15

In this video from SC15, Scot Schultz from Mellanox describes the company’s new Switch-IB 2, the new generation of its InfiniBand switch optimized for High-Performance Computing, Web 2.0, database and cloud data centers, capable of 100Gb/s per port speeds. “Switch-IB 2 is the world’s first smart network switch that offloads MPI operations from the CPU to the network to deliver 10X performance improvements. Switch-IB 2 will enables a performance breakthrough in building the next generation scalable and data intensive data centers, enabling users to gain a competitive advantage.”