SC19: IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center in Czech Republic Adds Mellanox 200Gb HDR IB

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that its 200Gb HDR IB was selected to accelerate the new HPC infrastructure at the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

The center was recently selected by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) as one of the 8 sites to host the next gen of European HPCs, boosting Europe’s competitiveness in the digital area.

In-network computing acceleration engines and high scalability of 200G HDR IB, the HPC user community will be able to accelerate their academic and scientific research activities and set the path for future HPC infrastructures.

“We are excited to be selected as one of the major supercomputing sites by EuroHPC to operate one of the leading European supercomputing infrastructures for increasing the competitiveness and innovation of Czech and European science and industry,” said Vit Vondrak, MD, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center. “HDR IB brings us the interconnect technology for building highly efficient and scalable HPC environments, enabling our users to carry out excellent research in the field of HPC and advanced data analysis.”

“We are proud to have our HDR IB solutions accelerate HPCs around the world, enhance research and discoveries, and advance Exascale programs,” said Gilad Shainer, SVP marketing, Mellanox. “IB continues to lead in performance, scalability and efficiency, and to be selected by many research, educational and government institutes, weather and climate facilities, and commercial organizations. The IB technology advantages are ideal for the most demanding compute and storage infrastructures. We are excited to continue our long-term collaboration with the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at the Technical University of Ostrava, and look forward to building next-gen Exascale HPCs in the future.“