Mellanox IB Chosen by Fujitsu

Mellanox
Technologies, Ltd announced that its FDR
56Gb/s IB end-to-end solutions have been selected by Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand for the new Petascale supercomputer for the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) – Australia’s
high-end research computing service, located at the Australian National University (ANU).

NCI’s new supercomputer, which will enable scalable applications for
research, will integrate FDR 56Gb/s IB SX6000 series switches and
ConnectX-3 adapter cards.

Funded by the Australian Government and a consortium of ANU and a number of
national government agencies, the NCI supercomputer will support Australia’s
scientists in advanced research in application areas including climate change,
meteorology, geospatial applications, and astronomy. When it is installed in
October 2012, the ANU supercomputer, based on Fujitsu Primergy X-86 technology,
will be the largest system based on in the southern hemisphere.

"Providing Australia’s scientists
with more computing power to conduct research will lead to more scientific
breakthroughs for the nation and the rest of the world," said Phil
McCormack, head of strategy at Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand. "We look forward to continuing our work with
NCI, ANU and Mellanox to build one of th most efficient and powerful
supercomputers in the world."

"Mellanox’s interconnect technology
integrated with Fujitsu servers provide users with a scalable and
power-efficient system that enables innovative scientific research,"
said Marc Sultzbaugh, VP of WW sales at Mellanox Technologies. "Our FDR IB solution provides Australian
scientists with the performance, scalability and efficiency needed to meet the
requirements of research workloads and simulations today and into the future."

As part of the deal, the Mellanox interconnect solutions were provided by
Mellanox’s local reseller, XENON Systems Pty Ltd., who specializes in the deployment of HPC solutions to Australian and
New Zealand research organizations.