IB Increased to 207 or 41% of Top 500 HPCs

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. continued its leadership as the global interconnect solution provider for the TOP500 list of supercomputers.

The number of IB-based supercomputers increased to 207, representing 41.4% of the TOP500.

The number of the TOP500’s petascale-capable systems connected with Mellanox FDR IB grew 3X from November 2012 to November 2013.

Overall, the number of FDR IB connected systems grew 1.8X from November 2012 to November 2013, showing the increasing demand for higher performance, scalability and efficiency.

Connect-IB and ConnectX IB adapters and SwitchX-based switch systems optimize server and storage performance and provide the scalable, low-latency, and power-efficient interconnect for the world’s fastest supercomputers, connecting nearly 48% (19 systems) of all petascale-based systems (40 systems), more than 2X higher than the competition.

The advanced offloads and accelerations within Mellanox IB solutions enable the performance-efficient systems on the TOP500 list with more than 97% system and CPU efficiency.

“We are pleased to see the increased adoption of our FDR IB interconnect solutions by the world’s fastest supercomputers,” said Eyal Waldman, president and CEO, Mellanox. “FDR IB delivers today the highest performance for high-performance computing, cloud, Web 2.0, database and storage applications. Our interconnect solutions connect nearly half of the world’s petaflop systems, demonstrating the high system efficiency and scalability that our interconnect provides. We continue with our development efforts to bring the next generation of 100Gb/s interconnect solutions, which are expected to be released in 2014/2015 time frame.”

The TOP500 list ranks the world’s most powerful computer systems according to the Linpack benchmark rating system.

Highlights of IB usage on the November 2013 TOP500 list include:

• FDR IB is the fastest growing interconnect technology on the TOP500 with a 1.8X increase in the number of systems versus the November 2012 TOP500 list.
• IB connects 48% of the world’s most powerful petaflop systems on the list.
• Mellanox IB provides the highest system utilization on the TOP500, achieving 97% system utilization.
• FDR IB enables the most efficient systems on the TOP200.
• IB accelerates 207 systems in the TOP500, 41.4% of the list.
• IB is the most used interconnect in the TOP100 with 48%, in the TOP200 with 48.5%, in the TOP300 with 44% and in the TOP400 systems with 42.5%.
• IB systems account for 2X the performance of Ethernet systems.
• IB connects 4X the number of Cray-based systems in the TOP100, and 6.5X in TOP500 systems.
• Clusters continue to be the dominant system architecture with 85% of the TOP500 list.
• Mellanox end-to-end IB scalable HPC solutions accelerate 80.7% of the accelerator-based systems.
• Mellanox IB interconnect solutions present in the TOP500 are used by a diverse list of applications from large-scale, high-performance computing to commercial, technical computing, cloud computing, Web 2.0, and enterprise data centers.