Benchmarks of Mellanox FDR 56Gb IB

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that its FDR 56Gb/s IB solutions deliver unmatched application performance over competing interconnect solutions.

Benchmarks performed on multiple applications, such as OpenFOAM (Computational Fluid Dynamic), NAMD (Molecular Dynamics), RADIOSS (Structural Analysis), LAMMPS (Molecular Dynamics), WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) and CP2K (Molecular Simulations) demonstrate higher performance – 20% to 30% higher performance with sixteen compute nodes compared to QDR 40Gb/s IB, and 100 to 200% higher performance compared to 10GbE and 40GbE.

Furthermore, Connect-IB FDR 56Gb/s IB adapter delivers 3X higher message rate over competing solutions, enabling 137 million messages per second.

The performance capabilities demonstrated by FDR 56Gb/s IB are critical to HPC, Web 2.0, cloud, big data and financial applications which require the highest bandwidth and the lowest latency to provide a competitive advantage to their users.

"These application benchmarks highlight the performance advantage of FDR 56Gb/s IB and the return-on-investment it provides to users," said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. "Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s IB solution is the most efficient interconnect solution for connecting servers and storage systems, delivering high throughput, low latency and world-leading application performance."

Available, Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s IB solution includes ConnectX-3 and Connect-IB adapter cards, SwitchX-2 based switches (from 12-port to 648-port), fiber and copper cables, and ScalableHPC accelerator and management software.