Australian CSIRO Selects Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s
national science agency, has selected Mellanox’s end-to-end FDR IB solution for
their new accelerated cluster, including SwitchX SX6025 switches, ConnectX-3
adapters, Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) and cables.

CSIRO chose Mellanox’s high-speed interconnect solution due to its
scalability, low power consumption, and efficiency data handling that utilizes
the lGPUDirect and CORE-Direct acceleration technologies.

"With industry server
upgrades such as the new Intel architecture, it was apparent that we needed to
upgrade our interconnect solution for better performance, scalability and
return on investment," said Brian Davis, ASC Cluster Services manager
at CSIRO. "Mellanox FDR IB,
GPUDirect and CORE-Direct acceleration technologies provided the solution we
needed. This technology helps to ensure our users will have a high performance
level for their research and development."

"Mellanox will provide
CSIRO with the fastest IB technology and capabilities of PCI-Express 3.0 to
enable the highest productivity of the new compute intensive cluster,"
said Marc Sultzbaugh, VP of WW sales at Mellanox. "Mellanox FDR IB interconnect solutions,
performance acceleration technologies, such as CORE-Direct and the support for
GPUDirect, future proof CSIRO’s investment and provide their users superior
application performance with the most advanced high-performance computing
infrastructure."

The new CSIRO HPC Cluster was awarded to XENON Systems, the local
Australian Mellanox partner who specializes in the deployment of HPC solutions to Australian and New Zealand research
organizations.