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Mellanox HPC-X Scalable Software Framework Adopted by Several Partners

Including Altair, Bright Computing, Bull, SGI, Q-Leap Networks

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced continued industry adoption of the HPC-X Scalable Software Framework, a software suite for performance computing environments, which provides enhancements to increase the scalability and performance of message communications in the network, supporting MPI, PGAS/SHMEM and UPC.

Since its introduction in June of last year, the HPC-X Scalable Software Framework has achieved increasing adoption into the product portfolios of industry ISV and ecosystem partners, such as Altair Engineering, Inc., Bright Computing, Bull SAS, Silicon Graphics International Corp., Q-Leap Networks GmbH and many others.

HPC-X enables you to rapidly deploy and deliver maximum application performance,” said Damien Declat, director and head of HPC competency centers, Atos SE. “We were able to achieve a significant 37 performance gain on Quantum Expresso at 43 nodes, and even more impressive was running at 196 nodes, we noted a 61% up-tick in performance, compared to other MPI middleware.

HPC-X has demonstrated exceptional performance improvements across leading commercial and open source HPC applications,” said Scot Schultz, director, HPC and technical computing, Mellanox. “HPC-X includes native acceleration capabilities to allow anyone to rapidly realize the performance that was once being left on the table by using other commercially available MPI packages.

We are happy to be able to provide HPC-X to our customers,” said Lionel Gibbons, VP marketing, Bright Computing. “This full-featured HPC Software framework complements Bright Cluster Manager and enables applications to scale up to large clusters by improving on memory and latency related efficiencies.

HPC-X provides a value for customers to achieve maximum system efficiency, application performance and scalability by exploiting the underlying interconnect fabric’s acceleration capabilities.

HPC-X unlocks the real potential of the application by providing transparent acceleration capabilities of the underlying hardware,” said Eric Lequiniou, director, HPC, Altair. “HPC-X delivers maximum application performance without the cost or complexity of licensed third-party libraries. With HPC-X we have seen performance gains of 25% with Altair OptiStruct in as few as 24 nodes, and 25% increase in performance with RADIOSS at just 16 nodes using EDR IB versus older technologies.

The Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) is a mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed for both atmospheric research and operational forecasting needs. The latest performance results of HPC-X with EDR 100Gb/s IB also demonstrates over 8% greater productivity at just 32 nodes (896 cores) with the WRF conus12km benchmark, versus other commercially available MPI products.

Integrating HPC-X into the Qlustar MPI stack adds exceptional value for our customers,” said Roland Fehrenbacher, CEO, Q-Leap. “Our recent OpenFoam benchmarks have shown that even for node counts as small as 4, a significant performance boost of more than 10% can be achieved. HPC-X is an absolute must for many communication intensive applications.

HPC-X provides communication libraries to support MPI, SHMEM and PGAS programming languages, as well as performance accelerators that take advantage of Mellanox’s scalable interconnect solutions. HPC-X continues to provide support for other interconnect solutions as well, based on the Ethernet and IB standards.

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