Mellanox 100Gb IB Adapters to Purdue University

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that its FDR IB solution provides Purdue University‘s Conte supercomputer with scalable performance, allowing its researchers to use the most effective computational tools.

By connecting Conte’s servers and Lustre-based storage with FDR IB solution, consisting of Connect-IB adapters, SwitchX-2-based switches and cables, Conte is capable of delivering a peak performance of 1.342 petaflops with message rate up to 2X higher than their previous cluster.

“The increasing complexity of science and engineering research at Purdue is driving a need for increasingly faster and scalable computational resources,” said Michael Shuey, HPC system manager, Purdue University. “Mellanox’s FDR IB solutions, and in particular their Connect-IB adapters, allow MPI codes to scale more readily than our previous systems. This enables more detailed simulations, and helps empower Purdue scientists to push the envelope on their research in weather, bioscience, materials engineering and more.”

“We are pleased to have Mellanox’s FDR IB solution as the interconnect of choice for Purdue’s Conte supercomputer, the nation’s fastest university-owned supercomputer,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “Utilizing Mellanox’s Connect-IB adapters, Purdue is able to take advantage of the adapter’s leading message rate and bandwidth performance to provide its scientist with unmatched performance and capabilities to enhance and accelerate their highly-complex simulation modeling.”

Connect-IB is a scalable server and storage adapter solution for HPC, Web 2.0, cloud, big data, financial services, virtualized data centers and storage environments. Connect-IB adapters deliver a throughput of 100Gb/s utilizing PCIe 3.0 x16, scaling with transport services, sub-microsecond latency and 137 million messages per second – 4X higher message rate over competing solutions.

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

Mellanox demonstrated these performance advantages at SC’13, November 18-21, 2013.