University of Tokyo Selected Mellanox EDR IB

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced its Switch-IB 2 EDR 100Gb IB switch systems and ConnectX-4 adapters have been chosen by the Information Technology Center at the University of Tokyo to accelerate its supercomputer for computational science, engineering by large-scale simulations, and data analysis.

“Mellanox’s smart Switch-IB 2 switches enable the University of Tokyo to leverage new in-network computing capabilities, allowing data algorithms to be managed and executed by the network devices,” said Gilad Shainer, VP, marketing, Mellanox. “EDR 100G IB offers world-leading performance, scalability and efficiency enabling the University of Tokyo to be at the forefront of research, and scientific discovery.“

“We are pleased to have installed Mellanox’s IB high-performance solutions to drive our new integrated supercomputer system,” said professor Hiroshi Nakamura, director of the Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo. “Our new system is key to advancing ongoing research and expanding the exciting work being carried out that is leveraging computational science and engineering, computer science, data analysis, and machine learning.“

IB adapters provide an interconnect solution for HPC, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud computing, and embedded environments. Switch-IB 2 EDR 100Gb IB switches enable in-network computing through the Co-Design SHArP (Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation Protocol) technology. It delivers the highest fabric performance with up to 7Tb/s of non-blocking bandwidth, 90ns port-to-port latency and 195 million messages per second per port.

The Information Technology Center is one of Japan’s premiere research and educational institutions, armed with the mission of building, and operating large computer systems. It serves as the core institute of the Joint Usage/Research Center for Interdisciplinary Large-scale Information Infrastructures (JHPCN), a group of supercomputer centers across eight universities.

The supercomputer will also serve as a test environment for a future supercomputer system that will be tasked with advancing research in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other multifaceted fields of study.