… And, of Course, IB Leader Mellanox Confirmed

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that IB connected systems grew year-over-year from November 2014 to November 2015, demonstrating the growing demand for Mellanox IB solutions.

IB-connected systems increased from 225 to 235 year-over-year, representing 47% of the TOP500 list. The number of FDR 56Gb/s IB systems grew 16% year-over-year and EDR 100Gb/s IB now connects 4 systems on the TOP500. The number of EDR 100Gb/s IB systems is expected to more than double by the end of 2015 compared to the July 2015 TOP500 list.

The November TOP500 list marked the first time Ethernet-based Web 2.0 and cloud infrastructures from China were submitted and included, altering the trend perspective of HPC systems and interconnect in the TOP500. These hyperscale systems use a similar system architecture, and in order to be more efficient, would require RDMA and intelligent interconnect. Mellanox Ethernet adapters with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and switches are positioned to enable those infrastructures to deliver higher performance, scalability, efficiency, and overall return-on-investment.

IB is the leading solution for HPC-based infrastructures and is used in 61% of the HPC research segment, 80% in the HPC academic segment, and 50% in government systems. In the blend of cloud, Web 2.0, and enterprise industry systems, IB connects 24% of these infrastructures.

Due to its performance, Mellanox IB is the most used interconnect solutions for petascale computing, connecting 45% of the world Petascale-performance systems on the list. Furthermore, Mellanox IB solutions deliver high ROI with 99.8% system efficiency, 4X higher versus Ethernet.

“We are pleased with our ongoing interconnect leadership on the TOP500 and the increased adoption of our FDR and EDR IB solutions. Mellanox is the only company to offer a proven, robust, reliable, end-to-end 100Gb/s interconnect solution, providing the highest application performance and system scalability,” said Eyal Waldman, president and CEO, Mellanox. “As the need for higher performance and analyzing greater amounts of data increases, more intelligence is being moved to the interconnect. Intelligent interconnect solutions will further increase application performance from generation to generation, paving the road to exascale compute and storage infrastructures. With our upcoming HDR 200Gb/s IB solutions in the 2017 timeframe, we expect to continue our generation-ahead leadership in high-performance computing, Web 2.0, and cloud, delivering scalable, efficient and intelligent interconnect solutions.“

Mellanox ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s IB adapters, switch-IB based switch systems and LinkX fiber and copper cables optimize server and storage performance and provide the scalable, low-latency, and power-efficient interconnect for the world’s fastest supercomputers.

• Highlights of IB usage on the November 2015 TOP500 list include:
• IB is the most used interconnect on the TOP500 with 235 systems, 47% of the list.
• FDR 56Gb/s IB connected systems grew 16% year-over-year.
• EDR 100Gb/s IB solutions connected 4 systems on the TOP500
• IB is the most used interconnect for petascale-performance systems connecting 33 systems, 45% of the list.
• Mellanox IB solutions provide high system utilization on the TOP500, achieving 99.8% system utilization.
• IB is the most used interconnect in the TOP100 with 42%, in the TOP200 with 44%, in the TOP300 with 44% and in the TOP400 systems with 45%.
• IB connects 1.4X the number of Cray-based systems in the TOP100, 5X in TOP500.
• Clusters continue to be the dominant system architecture with 85% of the TOP500 list.