High Performance Interconnects: Assessment & Rankings

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Dan Olds, OrionX

Dan Olds, OrionX

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Dan Olds from OrionX discusses the High Performance Interconnect (HPI) market landscape, plus provides ratings and rankings of HPI choices today.

“The HPI market is the very high-end of the networking equipment market where high bandwidth and low latency are non-negotiable. It started out as a specialist proprietary segment but has blossomed into an indispensable, large, and growing area. Products in this category are used to build extreme-scale computing systems. They are typically not used for traditional telco, enterprise, or service provider networking needs. In this talk, we’ll take a look at the technologies and performance of high-end networking technology and the coming battle between onloading vs. offloading interconnect architectures.

One of the most important components of a high performance computing solution is the interconnect that ties the resources together. In fact, interconnect speeds have advanced at a rate of 30% annually over the past four decades. This compares well with Moore’s Law, which indicates 41% annual improvement. Thus the increase in interconnect performance has had, and will continue to have, a large impact on the performance of high performance systems. Major vendors in this market include Mellanox, vendors with an exclusive focus on Ethernet such as Cisco, Juniper Networks, HPE, Brocade, et. al., and Cray, SGI, and Intel.

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