Mellanox Multi-Host Technology Multi-Host Interconnect Technology Adopted by OEMs

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a supplier interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced that its Multi-Host interconnect technology has been adopted by multiple OEMs.

The technology improves data center economics, allowing OEMs to build scale-out heterogeneous compute and storage platforms connectivity between multiple compute elements, storage elements and the network. According to OEM benchmark results, Mellanox Multi-Host enhances the data center performance by 150% while reducing data center costs by nearly 30%.

“We have adopted Mellanox’s innovative Multi-Host EDR 100Gb IB technology within Sugon M-Pro servers,” said Cao Zhennan, GM of the HPC department, Sugon Information Industry Co., ltd. “Multi-Host can balance the communication performance of processes on all CPUs and reduce network costs through network sharing. Together with our high-density blade technology, the system delivers higher application performance at lower cost.“

Multi-Host technology enables multiple compute or storage hosts to direct-connect into a single interconnect adapter. This improves the data center TCO by reducing the number of cables, network adapters and switches by 4X. The technology is available in the company’s line of ConnectX-4 Lx and ConnectX-5 10/25/40/50/56/100Gb IB and Ethernet adapters.

ASRock Rack, Inc., in cloud computing server hardware, designed their blade server with four built-in ConnectX-4 Lx multi-host adapters. This technology enables 16 nodes to share the total network bandwidth up to 200GbE. 3U16N achieves the highest-density micro-server, maintaining performance with lower power consumption.

“For applications with high performance requirements such as in high-performance coud, and big data, the data center infrastructure needs to eliminate performance bottlenecks by reducing communication overhead, while maintaining a high cost/performance ratio,” said Weishi Sa, GM, ASRock Rack. “Mellanox Multi-Host technology provides us with the ideal solution for our Ethernet connectivity need. Due to the lower TCO and high performance network solution enabled by this technology, we’ll be able to provide world leading solutions for our customers.“

In addition, the Multi-Host technology has been accepted as a server network standard by Facebook‘s Open Compute Project, to enable the delivery efficient server, storage and data center hardware platforms.

“Data center technology is evolving into a new age, in which the network interconnect technology is playing an increasingly important role,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “We are pleased to see our innovative Multi-Host technology has helped Sugon and ASRock Rack establish unparalleled high-performance server solutions.The solutions based on Multi-Host establish a foundation for building next-generation computing and storage data centers.“