Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s IB Solutions Gain Momentum

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced the growing adoption of its end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s IB solutions.

EDR 100Gb/s IB adapters, switches, cables and software are efficient interconnect solutions for connecting servers and storage, delivering high throughput, low latency and application performance for HPC, Web 2.0, database and cloud data centers.

CS7510 324-port

In addition, Mellanox expanded its line of EDR 100Gb/s IB switch systems. The CS7520 216-port and CS7510 324-port non-blocking modular switches are part of the company’s Switch-IB-based EDR 100Gb/s IB switch family which includes the SB7700 and SB7790 36-port 1U switches and the CS7500 648-port modular switch; all with fabric management capabilities to ensure the fabric performance. These switches give users the flexibility to optimize their data center connectivity for highest application performance and overall ROI.

SB7700

CS7500 648-port modular switch

Key features:

CS7520: 216 EDR 100Gb/s IB QSFP28 ports in a 12U switch. 43Tb/s switching capacity. Sub 0.5us port latency.
CS7510: 324 EDR 100Gb/s IB QSFP28 ports in a 16U switch. 64Tb/s switching capacity. Sub 0.5us port latency.

“Mellanox’s EDR 100Gb/s IB solutions provide world-leading, scalable performance to address the bandwidth requirements of the next generation, scalable high-performance compute and storage platforms,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “Mellanox’s Switch-IB-based modular switches are the industry’s highest performing solutions for high-performance computing, Web 2.0, database and cloud data centers. Mellanox’s EDR 100Gb/s IB enables these centers to deliver high application performance, to become more efficient and to reduce their operating expenses.“

“As the leading supplier of IB Storage to Data Intensive Global Enterprises, DDN has leveraged Mellanox componentry and switching for years to deliver the industry’s fastest storage solutions,” said Bret Weber, CTO and VP, engineering, DataDirect Networks, Inc. “At ISC, we will be demonstrating the world’s fastest Lustre appliance in conjunction with Mellanox’s EDR 100Gb/s IB interconnect.“

“High-performance computing infrastructures require highly efficient systems and scalable, performance-based solutions to solve the world’s most difficult scientific, engineering and data analysis problems,” said Ingolf Staerk, senior director, HPC, Fujitsu Limited . “Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY HPC solutions, combined with Mellanox’s EDR 100Gb/s IB solutions, will enable our customers with outstanding application runtime performance, scalability, and return-on investment.“

“To solve the world’s most challenging problems, scientists, engineers and analysts push the boundaries of performance,” said Bill Mannel, VP and GM, HPC and big data, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP. “The combination of HP’s Apollo systems and Mellanox’s EDR 100Gb/s IB solutions provide breakthrough, energy-efficient performance for our customers’ HPC workloads.“

“Interconnect is one of the key elements to enable system performance and efficiency. Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s IB is the highest performance interconnect by far,” said Qiu Long, GM, servers domain, IT product line, Huawei Technologies CO, Ltd.. “Being one of the earliest EDR adopters, Huawei FusionServer can deliver unmatched flexibility and scalability to run customers application with Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s IB interconnect.“

“Systems based on POWER CPUs dramatically accelerate technical computing and data analytics workloads,” said Sumit Gupta, VP and business line executive, HPC and OpenPOWER operations, IBM Corporation. “When a cluster of POWER-based systems operate on these compute and data intensive workloads, the ability of Mellanox’s EDR IB ConnectX-4 adapters and Switch-IB switches to run at 100Gb/s enables much better cluster scaling and reduces network latency to achieve real-time results.“

“Mellanox’s EDR 100Gb/s IB will make an immediate impact for our customers and for our business with the 100Gb/s interconnect performance,” said Jun Liu, GM, HPC, Inspur Worldwide Services Ltd. “Integrating Mellanox’s EDR 100Gb/s IB solutions into our next generation products will allow us to have the flexibility and scalability we didn’t have before to make our customer’s infrastructure run as efficient and productive as possible.“

“High-performance computing applications require the highest computing and interconnect performance,” said Brian Connors, VP, strategic alliances and GM HPC business line, Lenovo Group Ltd. “The combination of Lenovo servers and Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s IB interconnects delivers superior performance capabilities to deliver faster results for our customers.“

“SGI considers Mellanox a strategic partner because of their ability to meet our customer demands with industry standard IB networking that addresses application performance, system size, and budget needs. The launch of Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s IB is continued evidence of their innovation,” said Gabriel Broner, VP and GM, HPC business unit, Silicon Graphics International Corp. “SGI will deploy EDR 100Gb/s IB to provide our customers with unmatched flexibility and performance. SGI looks forward to continuing the partnership as we scale our technology to meet the rising data demands of today’s leading HPC and enterprise businesses.“

“A huge need for today’s HPC compute-intensive applications is being able to scale with the highest performance and efficiency,” said Zhennan Cao, GM, HPC business unit, Sugon. “Mellanox’s EDR 100Gb/s IB solutions provide our customers the power to scale at the speed of 100Gb/s and reduce their application runtime with our Sugon 6000 and Silicon Cube series HPC solutions.“

“AppliedMicro is pleased to work with Mellanox to enable highly efficient, scale-out solutions for a variety of HPC workloads with our family of X-Gene 64-bit ARM server processors,” said John Williams, VP, marketing, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AppliedMicro). “The Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s IB interconnect solutions are an ideal complement to X-Gene processors maximizing workload performance and power efficiency to optimize data center TCO.“

“As processor performance increases, high-bandwidth interconnects are critical to avoid bottlenecks in high-performance computing environments,” said Gopal Hegde, VP/GM, data processor group, Cavium, Inc. “Cavium 48-core ThunderX ARMv8 SOCs are optimized to deliver best-in-class performance for these workloads, and Mellanox industry-leading EDR 100GB/s IB will help ensure these HPC clusters will scale and perform at the highest levels.“