According to a release by Mellanox today at ISC, Infiniband products have experienced record growth on Top500 list as of late. Frankly, I believe them. From their release: As reported in the 35th edition of the TOP500 list, the growth of Mellanox InfiniBand-connected systems increased to more than 41 percent of the TOP500. Mellanox InfiniBand enables the highest system efficiency and utilization, up to 96 percent.
Mellanox’s end-to-end 40Gb/s connectivity provides the most scalable, reliable, and highest performance solution for demanding compute applications around the world delivering not only the highest return on investment, but also the lowest power consumption,” said Eyal Waldman, president, chairman and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “We are experiencing the growth of InfiniBand in the high-performance computing markets and are now seeing its adoption in additional markets such as financial, database, virtualized data centers, Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing. InfiniBand has passed the early stage of adoption as a server and storage interconnect and is now entering into a growing number of mainstream vertical markets.”
Advancements in multicore CPU architectures and the rise in GPU computing are placing greater demands on server and storage interconnects for higher bandwidth and lower application latencies,” said Jie Wu, Research Director, Technical Computing at IDC. “The results on the TOP500 list are a clear indication that Mellanox InfiniBand solutions have been gaining traction by many supercomputer buyers. New technology solutions developed by Mellanox, such as application offloads and GPU cluster efficiency enhancements, will continue to address the market demand for higher performance and improved efficiency.”
For more info, read their full release here.
It’s surprising there are only two 10G Ethernet installations. This may rise over time if that technology catches-up with InfiniBand. Also of note is how much Myrinet has plunged in the past few years.