Mellanox IB Accelerates Australian National Computational HPC

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that the Australian National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) has chosen its 100Gb EDR IB interconnect for its Lenovo NextScale HPC.

The system will deliver a 40% performance increase in NCI computational capacity starting in January 2017. The solution will leverage the Mellanox interconnect and in-network computing technology to maximize applications performance, efficiency and scalability.

NCI is a national provider of research computing and data services. NCI systems support around 4,000 researchers undertaking over 500 projects. These researchers come from more than 34 Australian universities, national science agencies and medical research institutes, with an increasing industry user base. The HPC will complement the range of computational resources available through NCI and will provide a boost in capability for their users.

“We have growing number of research and industry projects demanding more compute and storage capabilities, and the new supercomputer will enable us to deliver to their needs,” said professor Lindsay Botten, director, NCI. “IB enables our system to be more efficient and deliver higher performance, but no less important, it also enables us to connect to our existing infrastructure and maximize our investments.“

“Lenovo is incredibly proud of its credentials in the HPC space in Australia and New Zealand,” said Rob Makin, group director, DCG, Lenovo ANZ. “Lenovo’s new NeXtScale technology is designed specifically for the high-performance compute industry and is scalable, energy efficient and robust. Lenovo is proud to be helping power the next generation of research at the Australian National Computational Infrastructure and we watch with interest to see the discoveries and advancements that are made as a result of this partnership.“

“We are proud to enable NCI with the most advanced IB solutions to accelerate the center computational capabilities,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “The new In-Network Computing technology delivers breakthrough performance for high-performance computing applications, whichwill increase the research capabilities NCI users need.“

“The new supercomputer is a results of a great collaboration between XENON Systems Pty Ltd, Lenovo and Mellanox,” said Dragan Dimitrovici, MD, XENON. “The new supercomputer leverages best of bread technology to deliver unmatchable performance, efficiency and robustness. We look forward to continue and enhance the super-computing capabilities in Australia and beyond.“