Jülich Supercomputing Centre Selects Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced its EDR 100Gb/s solution has been selected to accelerate the large-scale supercomputer JURECA at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, provided by T-Platforms and ParTec.

EDR 100Gb/s solutions, consisting of ConnectX-4 adapters, Switch-IB switch systems, LinkX cables, and HPC-X software, will enable JURECA with scalable application performance and system efficiency for their variety of HPC workloads.

“The new general-purpose supercomputer JURECA will provide our scientists and researchers with ground breaking performance that will advance their key research,” said Prof. Thomas Lippert, director, Jülich Supercomputing Centre. “Taking advantage of the performance, efficiency and scalability benefits of Mellanox end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s IB solutions, the JURECA system will enable our users to move our research forward more quickly.“

“Large research labs require extremely fast data access for their applications in order to conduct their research more effectively,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “Mellanox’s end-to-end EDR IB interconnect solutions provide the most efficient and scalable interconnect infrastructure to enable Jülich to increase their application performance and achieve their research goals.“