Supermicro Launches Blade and HPC Solutions with 20Gb/s InfiniBand

Super Micro Computer, Inc.
announced the availability of high-bandwidth, low-latency InfiniBand
(IB) connectivity solutions for its SuperBlade and high-performance
computing (HPC) product lines.

Both the Supermicro AOC-UINF-M2
Universal I/O (UIO) network adapters and SuperBlade integrated switch
and Mezzanine IB solutions are based on Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. controllers for industry-leading 20Gb/s
InfiniBand I/O performance.

"These new IB
switch and HCA solutions empower our HPC and enterprise customers not
only with high-bandwidth (20Gb/s) connectivity, but also with
hardware-based I/O virtualization and latency as low as 1.2
microseconds," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro.
"Our SuperBlade IB switch supports up to fourteen internal ports and
ten external ports for a total switch bandwidth of 960 Gb/s."

Supermicro has been shipping 4X DDR InfiniBand switch, the
industry’s fastest (20Gb/s in each direction) blade server
interconnect, since Q3, 2007. With 960 processing cores per 42U rack
and 4X DDR InfiniBand, SuperBlade is the densest and fastest blade
server solution in the industry. Additional cost savings associated
with less IT space required as well as easier maintenance and
management make these solutions a very attractive option for enterprise
and high performance computing applications.

"We
are working with Supermicro to deliver a large breadth of optimized
multi-core computing and storage servers," said Eyal Waldman, chairman,
president and CEO at Mellanox Technologies. "With outstanding
performance and power efficiency, Mellanox InfiniBand-accelerated,
Supermicro servers and blade servers are ideal for enterprise data
center environments and high-performance computing applications."

As
the industry’s most optimized 1U HPC solutions, Supermicro 1U Twin
servers support up to 16 processor cores via two DP nodes, each with an
onboard Mellanox 20Gb/s ConnectX InfiniBand controller, in 1U of rack
space. Beside the HPC-optimized 6015TW-INF and 6015T-INF 1U Twin
SuperServers, existing Supermicro UIO server customers can upgrade
right away to dual-port InfiniBand with the new AOC-UINF-M2 adapter
featuring dual CX4 connectors.

Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Mellanox Technologies, Inc.