Today DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) announced that the company has chosen leading Ethernet supplier Mellanox Technologies to supercharge their massive exascale-focused HPC facility. “DUG’s ambitious cloud service, DUG McCloud, is tailored specifically to the geophysics community and is currently being built at Skybox Houston. Described as the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the facility will be 250 single-precision petaflops when fully installed. The vast, geophysically-configured machine, housed in a purpose-built exascale data centre, will have the power, room, and plans in hand to expand beyond an exaflop, as demand increases.”
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Now Shipping: Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand Solutions for Accelerating HPC & Ai
February 25, 2019 by
Today Mellanox announced that its 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand solutions are now shipping worldwide to deliver leading efficiency and scalability to HPC, Ai, cloud, storage and other data intensive applications. “The world-wide strategic race to Exascale supercomputing, the exponential growth in data we collect and need to analyze, and the new performance levels needed to support new scientific investigations and innovative product designs, all require the fastest and most advanced HDR InfiniBand interconnect technology. HDR InfiniBand solutions enable breakthrough performance levels and deliver the highest return on investment, enabling the next generation of the world’s leading supercomputers, hyperscale, Artificial Intelligence, cloud and enterprise datacenters.”
Mellanox Powers New Hawk Supercomputer at HLRS with 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand
January 8, 2019 by
Today Mellanox announced that its 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand solutions were selected to accelerate a world-leading supercomputer at HLRS in Germany. The 5000-node supercomputer named “Hawk” will be built in 2019 and provide 24 petaFLOPs of compute performance. By utilizing the InfiniBand fast data throughput and the smart In-Network Computing acceleration engines, HLRS users will be able to achieve the highest HPC and AI application performance, scalability and efficiency.
Video: Mellanox HDR InfiniBand Speeds HPC and Ai Applications with SHARP Technologies
November 26, 2018 by
In this video, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox describes how the company’s newly available HDR 200 Gigabit/sec InfiniBand solutions can speed up HPC and Ai applications. “We are proud to see the first Mellanox HDR InfiniBand ConnectX-6 adapters and Quantum switches based supercomputer in the world,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “The smart In-Network Computing acceleration engines that InfiniBand enables will deliver the highest performance, efficiency and scalability for the University of Michigan users, for both HPC and AI applications.”
Mellanox BlueField SmartNICs Accelerate E8 Storage
November 20, 2018 by
Last week at SC18, E8 Storage announced it is expanding its technology partnership with Mellanox with an integrated solution built on Mellanox BlueField SmartNICs. Customers will be able to maximize computing resources by pairing the E8 agent with the SmartNIC. The new integration will allow users to utilize the benefits of CPU offload to overcome any performance bottlenecks to application performance.
Mellanox InfiniBand to Power Eagle Supercomputer coming to NREL
September 24, 2018 by
Today Mellanox announced that InfiniBand has been chosen to accelerate the new Eagle supercomputer at NREL. The pending 8 Petaflop system will consist of more than 2100 nodes and deliver 3 times the performance compared to NREL’s current supercomputing platform. Eagle will be put into production in January 2019. “The Eagle supercomputer will enable NREL’s researchers to run increasingly detailed models that simulate complex processes and phenomena, to gain new insights and innovations in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies,” said Steve Hammond, NREL’s Computational Science Director at NREL.”
Mellanox to Power Frontera Supercomputer with HDR 200G InfiniBand
September 2, 2018 by
Today Mellanox announced that HDR 200 gigabit per second InfiniBand has been selected to accelerate the new large-scale supercomputer to be deployed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). The system, named Frontera, will leverage HDR InfiniBand to deliver the highest application performance, scalability and efficiency.
Mellanox Rolls Out World’s Fastest Ethernet Storage Fabric Controller
August 6, 2018 by
Today Mellanox rolled out new BlueField-based storage controllers, offering “ultra-high performance” for Ethernet Storage Fabrics. “These BlueField storage controllers tightly-integrate flash connectivity, networking, and Arm processors to maximize performance and efficiency, while eliminating the need for a separate CPU in storage and hyperconverged appliances. This makes them perfect for connecting and virtualizing the fastest non-volatile storage.”
Excelero and Mellanox Boost Ceph Performance in OpenStack Cloud
June 20, 2018 by
OpenStack cloud provider Teuto.net has reported exceptional performance with low-latency block storage using deployed Excelero’s NVMesh Server SAN along with Mellanox SN2100 switches. As more customers need storage suitable for demanding databases that exceed Ceph’s performance, teuto.net achieved a 2,000% performance gain and 10x lower IO latency with NVMesh compared to Ceph while avoiding costly, less scalable appliances and proprietary vendor solutions.
Mellanox Launches Ground-Breaking Open Hyper-Scalable Enterprise Framework
May 29, 2018 by
Today Mellanox announced the Mellanox Hyper-scalable Enterprise Framework, the industry’s first truly scalable, open framework for private cloud and enterprise data centers. “With the advent of open platforms and open networking it is now possible for even modestly sized organizations to build data centers like the hyperscalers do,” said Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “We are confident and excited to release the Mellanox Hyper-scalable Enterprise Framework to the industry – and to provide an open, intelligent, high performance, accelerated and fully converged network to enable enterprise and private cloud architects to build a world class data center.”
