Mellanox and HPE in Partnership

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced a strategic collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE) to enable efficient HPC and machine learning data centers, based on the technologies from both companies.

The mutual solutions will enable customers to leverage the IB and Gen-Z open standards to maximize their ROI for current and future data centers and applications.

Leveraging Mellanox’s In-Network Computing capabilities in ConnectX-5 IB adapters and Switch-IB2 IB switches in the HPE SGI 8600 and HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10 systems, enables both companies to offer a powerful, scalable and efficient HPC and machine learning fabric solutions.

This collaboration will enable both companies to develop synergistic technology integration and the optimal usage of the upcoming HDR IB Quantum switches, ConnectX-6 adapters and future Gen-Z devices.

In addition, joint development with HPE’s development team will pave the road to Exascale computing.

In-Network Computing interconnect architecture provides the technology to advance data processing and real time analytics, which is critical for a diverse range of HPC and machine learning applications. The collaboration with HPE will enable the companies to leverage the technology advancements of HDR IB and Gen-Z to overcome performance limitations of proprietary products and advance the levels of compute efficiency, scalability and data processing performance.

“Data-centric computing, In-Network computing and open standards are all necessary for technology innovations and for achieving state-of-the-art performance for a broad range of HPC and machine learning applications,” said Bill Mannel, VP and GM, HPC and AI, HPE. “The HPE and Mellanox collaboration will enable us to bring the solutions our customers need, based on IB and Gen-Z capabilities, to maximize data centers efficiency, and to deliver the highest value to our customers.“

Mellanox and HPE will showcase the solutions at the world-wide development and benchmarking centers and together will optimize customers’ applications and provide support in planning, developing and deploying future data centers.

“We have been working with HPE for more than a decade now, accelerating many of the world’s leading supercomputers,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “The growing demands for faster data analysis and scalable data simulations mandates technology innovations and collaborations around open standards, to deliver the needed compute and storage infrastructures today and in the future. The collaboration with HPE will enable tighter technology development, and optimize use of the IB architecture and for Gen-Z in the future. This will allow both companies to build the most efficient data centers for HPC and machine learning workloads.“

Mellanox and HPE will be presenting more details of the collaboration at June 2017 HP-CAST and the International Super-computing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.