KTH Royal Institute of Technology Selected Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced its EDR 100Gb IB solutions have been selected by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology for use in their PDC Center for HPC (PDC Center).

EDR IB solution offers higher interconnect speed, lower latency and smart accelerations to maximize efficiency and will enable the PDC Center to achieve data center performance across a variety of applications, including advanced modeling for climate changes, brain functions and protein-drug interactions.

The PDC Center is the latest deployment of Mellanox EDR IB technology to validate the expanding global adoption of this interconnect solution. The increasing use of IB technology was first illustrated in the TOP500 Supercomputers List in June 2015 with more than 50% of those included utilizing IB.

“The PDC Center trusts Mellanox’s EDR 100Gb/s IB technology to deliver the performance levels needed for the institute to remain one of the top research facilities in the world,” said Daniel Ahlin, technical director, PDC Center. “Incorporating Mellanox’s latest technology ensures that PDC will continue to provide top-level and consistent performance for our researchers throughout the system’s lifetime.“

“Mellanox understands the critical role high-performance computing plays in today’s academic research communities,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “The performance leadership of Mellanox EDR IB solutions, combined with the flexibility to program and innovate through them, enable the PDC Center to make new life-changing discoveries through simulation and modeling. Here at Mellanox we are big proponents of innovation and we look forward to supporting more institutes, like the PDC Center, as the global demand for high speed interconnect technology continues to grow.“

The PDC Center for HPC at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology provides HPC services to Swedish academia as part of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), as well as internationally via the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) infrastructure. Those services include supercomputing and storage resources plus assistance from a range of application experts.