Texas Advanced Computing Center Deploys Mellanox

Mellanox
Technologies, Ltd announced that its end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s IB is now deployed and
live in the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center
(TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin.

Stampede is the most powerful supercomputing system in the National Science
Foundation Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), and
one of the most powerful supercomputing systems in the world. TACC introduced
Stampede to the public on March 27.

Stampede integrates thousands of
individual Dell servers with Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s IB SwitchX based switches and
ConnectX-3 adapter cards with PCIe 3.0 to drive performance of nearly 10
petaflops.

"The
IB network was easy to deploy and delivers incredible application performance
on a consistent basis," said Tommy Minyard, director of advanced computing systems, TACC. "Utilizing
Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s IB provides us with extremely scalable, high performance –
a critical element as Stampede is designed to support hundreds of
computationally- and data-intensive science applications from around the United
States and the world."

"Stampede
is one of the highest profile supercomputers being deployed in 2013,"
said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing at Mellanox. "Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s IB is differentiated by
the low latency and accelerated speed which enables the fastest data delivery.
With a system the size of Stampede, where scalability is of the greatest of
importance, the role of IB is significant."

Stampede supports national scientific research into weather forecasting,
climate modeling, drug discovery and energy exploration and production.