Mellanox 56Gb IB to Accelerate Texas Advanced Computing Center

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that its FDR 56Gb/s IB solutions will
provide the performance interconnect enabling scalable parallel applications
for the Texas Advanced Computing Center
(TACC) Stampede supercomputer.

With a peak performance of more than 10 petaflops, Stampede will be
the most powerful system available to researchers via the NSF’s eXtreme Science
& Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program when installed in
January 2013. Stampede will support the nation’s scientists in addressing the challenging scientific and engineering problems.

Stampede will be integrated by Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s IB SwitchX SX6000
series switches and ConnectX-3 adapter cards for performance,
scalability and efficiency. FDR IB technology coupled with PCIe 3.0 plays a crucial role in enabling Stampede to scale over several
thousand Dell servers.

Stampede will be available to the national open science community for
computational science and engineering research advancing breakthroughs in arenas including weather forecasting, climate modeling, drug
discovery and energy exploration and production.

"Taking advantage of the
performance offered by Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s IB interconnect solutions, Stampede
will be one of the most powerful supercomputing systems in the world,"
said Jay Boisseau, director of TACC. "This
technology will enable very tight integration between thousands of Dell high
performance compute nodes and also visualization nodes, large shared memory
servers, and I/O servers. This integration means researchers can use Stampede
for all of the computational needs of their research, including simulation,
visualization, large-scale analytics and data mining, and high throughput data
processing. We expect the Stampede system to be a uniquely comprehensive,
highly scalable system for supporting both simulation-based science and
data-driven science."

"The additional computing
power Stampede will bring to the scientific community will drive significant
discoveries, from weather modeling and forecasting to energy and environmental
research," said John Mullen, Dell Inc.‘s VP and GM of global Major Public Accounts.
"We’re pleased to work with the
Texas Advanced Computing Center toward our collective goal of building one of
the most powerful supercomputers in the world."

"We applaud TACC’s
initiative to build the Stampede supercomputer to drive the next era of
scientific research. Stampede is poised to become a cornerstone of advanced
methods for petascale computing and Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s IB technology is the
driving force behind it," said Eyal Waldman, chairman, president, and
CEO of Mellanox. "Utilizing
the performance, scalability and efficiency benefits of Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s
IB interconnect solutions with PCE Express 3.0 support, the Stampede cluster
will provide researchers with unprecedented computation capabilities for their
most demanding workloads and simulations."