NEC Adopts Mellanox in Europe

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd and NEC Deutschland GmbH, in high-performance computing in Europe, announced that Mellanox’s line of industry and performance-leading InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity solutions with NEC LX Series Supercomputers are available through NEC HPC Europe.

The move accelerates NEC to address the demand for Mellanox’s connectivity products and technology from European HPC centers, cloud computing providers and enterprise customers.

"HPC customers across Europe are investing in new server and storage technologies such as GPU computing and integrating multi-core CPUs that require scalable and efficient, high-performance connectivity products," said Dr. Andreas Findling, Senior Product Line Manager, at HPC Europe in NEC Deutschland. "Together, NEC and Mellanox provide their European customers a solution which is focused on sustained performance computing by carefully optimizing the interaction of highest performing end-to-end networking with the entire software layer up to the world’s most compute-demanding applications."

"We see increasing Web 2.0, high-performance and cloud computing center opportunities in Europe, including in existing data centers across the region that are rapidly expanding to meet the growing demand for advanced HPC capabilities," said Yossi Avni, vice president of EMEA sales at Mellanox Technologies. "We believe this growth in Europe provides a significant opportunity for Mellanox, and we are pleased to have NEC HPC Europe adopt our end-to-end connectivity solutions into their product portfolio."

Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40GbE connectivity solutions, consisting of the ConnectX-3 line of I/O adapter products, cables and SwitchX family of fixed and modular switches, management and acceleration software and cables, deliver performance, efficiency and scalability.

NEC’s LX Series with its products LX-2200, LX-2400 and LX-4000 offer HPC solutions with focus on sustained performance computing. Optimizing components like the InfiniBand network, NEC MPI/LX, LX C3 and LXFS and optimized component interaction achieve performance for production load.