Mellanox Accelerate World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a supplier of interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced that its interconnect solutions accelerate the world’s fastest supercomputer, at the Super Computing Center in Wuxi, China.

The number one supercomputer delivers 93 petaflops (3 times higher compared to the previous top system), connecting nearly 41 thousand nodes and more than ten million CPU cores. The offloading architecture of the Mellanox interconnect solution is the key to providing performance, scalability and efficiency, connecting the highest number of nodes and CPU cores within a single supercomputer.

Mellanox’s IB solutions accelerate 45 petascale systems, nearly 50% of the world petascale-performance systems on the TP500 list, 1.6 times more than the closest competitor. With the release of the smart IB solutions, ConnectX-5 adapters and Switch-IB2 switch systems, and the expected release of 200Gb IB in 2017, Mellanox IB-based Exascale technology will continue to enable supercomputing leadership across applications and geographies.

“IB technology has been accelerating multiple generations of the world’s fastest supercomputers due to its performance, efficiency, scalability, robustness, and proven and standards-based leadership. Mellanox enabled the first petaflop system in 2008, and now enables the world’s first 100 petaflop supercomputer,” said Eyal Waldman, president and CEO, Mellanox. “The worldwide demand for higher performance and faster real-time data analytics, requires smart interconnect solutions that deliver high data speeds, as well as open, standards-based technology to ensure backward and future compatibility for our applications. Mellanox IB and Ethernet solutions deliver data speeds from 10 to 100Gb/s, offloading the CPU to enable the highest data center ROI and lowest cost of ownership. As we plan to introduce 200 and 400Gb/s solutions next year, Mellanox will continue to enable faster and more efficient high-performance computing, cloud, web2.0, database, deep learning and storage platforms.“

The TOP500 supercomputer list has evolved to include both HPC systems as well as cloud and Web2.0 hyperscale infrastructures, mainly from the AsiaPac region. For HPC systems on the list, IB continues to demonstrate its technology leadership accelerating 70% of the systems. Overall, IB connects 41.2% of the TOP500 systems.

Mellanox’s interconnect offloading architecture enables the most efficient system on the TOP500 list. Offloading architecture becomes more critical with the usage of accelerators and higher scale. IB enabled 53% higher system efficiency, higher system utilization and lower cost compared to Omni-Path. Additional comparisons demonstrated an average of 45% higher system performance at 25% lower cost per application performance in a recent HPC CPAR (Cost per Application Rating) benchmark review.

Published twice a year and publicly available at the TOP500 list ranks the world’s most powerful computer systems according to the Linpack benchmark rating system.

Detailed TOP500 presentation