Mellanox IB for New Cray CX1 Supercomputer

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that its InfiniBand adapters and switch silicon ICs provide the leading-edge performance interconnect for the recently announced Cray CX1 supercomputer, an advanced compute system designed for workgroups and departments in larger firms. The new product is targeted to drive high productivity computing farther into the mainstream in a broad array of high-growth IT markets. According to IDC, high growth is projected in the departmental segment of the technical computing server market, with a revenue CAGR of 11.2% to reach $5.8 billion by 2012.

“We are excited to see Mellanox’s world-leading InfiniBand solutions deliver unparalleled I/O connectivity and provide best-in-class price/performance for Cray systems,” said Gilad Shainer, director of technical marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “Mellanox’s world-class InfiniBand products have proven to be the key ingredients for building the most efficient compute systems for every workload and application scale, from desk-side to enterprise class and extreme scale computing.”

The Cray CX1 product incorporates up to 8 nodes and 16 Intel Xeon processors, either dual or quad core; delivers up to 64 gigabytes of memory per node; and provides up to 4 terabytes of internal storage. Multiple CX1 systems can be connected together via the internal InfiniBand network to form larger compute solutions, and can be configured with a mix of compute, storage and visualization blades to meet customers’ individual requirements.