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Mellanox HPC-X Framework Extends Smart In-Network Computing

Software suite supporting maximizing application throughput in HPC environments

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that the HPC-X Scalable Framework, targeted for data centric and HPC applications, is extending its support for In-Network Computing which will increase HPC application performance.

MELLANOX_HPC-X_BOXThe HPC-X Scalable Framework is a software suite that includes the Message Passing Interface (MPI), Shared Memory (SHMEM) and Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) communications libraries for HPC environments, and provides enhancements to increase the scalability and performance of message communications in the network.

Mellanox continues to invest and enable the HPC software ecosystem to take advantage of advanced data processing elements that extend to a new ‘network class of co-processors’ which have already been introduced through efforts of co-design collaboration.

Recently, the company introduced the SwitchIB-2, the first EDR 100Gb/s intelligent network device that is able to manage and execute MPI collective communications algorithms within the network fabric. This allows the network fabric to process and aggregate data in-flight. This capability is known as ‘SHArP’, firm’s Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation Protocol. HPC-X provides support of the powerful hardware features of SwitchIB-2 and allows seamless integration with existing software applications.

HPC datacenters can easily reap the benefits from In-Network Computing capabilities today,” said Scot Schultz, director, HPC and technical computing, Mellanox. “The performance of collective communications operations can be enhanced by at least ten fold by leveraging HPC-X with SHArP technology. Essentially, the performance benefits increase as the system size increases.

HPC-X also provides enhancements to support another advancement – IB Routing. The latest SB7780 IB Router from the company increases resiliency by providing the ability to segregate the data center’s network into several subnets. This, in turn, enables scaling of the fabric up to a virtually an unlimited number of nodes. HPC-X enables applications to scale beyond a localized cluster resource and run across unique subnets of HPC clusters. Additionally, support for IB routing with any system topology configuration across subnets allows the expansion of system resources into complex data workflows.

As HPC organizations work to solve critical scientific, business and research problems, their competitive edge relies on highly dense systems that can process results quickly and without interruption,” said Scott Misage, VP and GM, HPC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP . “With Mellanox’s EDR fabric, we have a robust set of building blocks that are critical in helping these customers achieve maximum system efficiency and eliminate bottlenecks to solve these problems even faster.

HPC-X provides complete communication libraries to support MPI, SHMEM and PGAS programming languages, and also supports performance accelerators that take advantage of firm’s scalable smart interconnect solutions, profiling and benchmarking tools and more. Moreover, HPC-X enables rapid deployment and delivery of maximum application performance without the complexity and costs of licensing third-party tools and libraries.

HPC-X
ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb IB adapters
Switch-IB EDR 100Gb IB switches
LinkX 100Gb/s cables and modules

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