Mellanox Expands its Benchmark Center

Mellanox Technologies,
Ltd., a supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage
interconnect products, announced the expansion of the Mellanox
Cluster Center with Vulcan, a high-performance compute environment,
based on Mellanox’s industry-leading ConnectX interconnect adapters and
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. The Mellanox Cluster Center provides
customers, partners and independent software vendors with the ability
to qualify, benchmark, and optimize high-performance enterprise and
storage applications.

"The Mellanox Cluster Center provides a
unique environment for our partners and end-users to test-drive and
optimize their solutions on a world-class compute infrastructure, and
in particular for independent software vendors, to maximize their
application’s productivity by taking advantage of Mellanox interconnect
solutions," said Gilad Shainer, director of technical marketing at
Mellanox Technologies. "The Vulcan cluster empowers our center with a
technology leading platform utilizing Mellanox’s ConnectX technology
and AMD’s quad-core processors."

"Applications today demand
guaranteed scalability. ConnectX helps improve end-to-end efficiency
and scaling while lowering processing overhead and is a great
complement to AMD processor-enabled solutions," said Scot Schultz,
senior strategic alliances manager of high performance computing, AMD.
"Together we are offering a technical advantage for our shared
end-users who demand superior performance and a high-performance
per-watt solution."

The Cluster Center has been operational
around the clock since August 2006 and has been utilized by a large
number of end-users and commercial vendors. The Vulcan cluster
increases the center’s capability and addresses the growing needs for
high-performance clusters in commercial high-performance computing and
enterprise datacenters. Vulcan is comprised of 32 Colfax International
servers, each containing two Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, for a
total of 256 cores, and connectivity to native InfiniBand-based storage
systems. Mellanox ConnectX 20Gb/s InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet
adapters, and Flextronics’ 24-port 20Gb/s switches in a full Fat-Tree
non-blocking network architecture connect the cluster server and
storage nodes. Zarlink’s ZL60615 ZLynx active optical cables
interconnect the servers and switches. Z-Research GlusterFS cluster
file system provides an option to utilize native InfiniBand-based
storage during various application testing.

"Colfax International
is proud to continue being a part of the Mellanox Cluster Center," said
Gautam Shah, CEO, Colfax International. "End-users and ISVs will
continue to leverage from our world leading compute cluster solutions,
in order to qualify and optimize their application."

"Z Research
is excited to showcase scalable, reliable and high-performance
clustered storage at the Mellanox Cluster Center in Santa Clara," said
Hitesh Chellani, co-founder of Z Research. "This enables potential
customers to test their applications and solutions on clustered storage
built with Gluster File System, commodity storage servers and Mellanox
ConnectX technology."

"Zarlink is delighted to be an integral
connectivity solution for the Mellanox Cluster Center," said Dr. Marco
Ghisoni, product line manager for Zarlink’s ZLynx Active Optical
Cables. "Cost-effective optical cable solutions enable HPCC performance
and scalability that is synonymous to InfiniBand architecture. The
Vulcan cluster is an excellent vehicle for HPC developers to test drive
best-in-class InfiniBand hardware and software ecology."

The
Mellanox Cluster Center, located in Santa Clara, Calif., offers an
environment for developing, testing, benchmarking and optimizing
products based on multi-core systems and the latest InfiniBand and
10GigE technology.

Mellanox Technologies,
Ltd.