Infiniband Connects 36% of TOP500 179 HPC Systems

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that IB solutions accelerate the majority of the new TOP500 systems deployed in 2017, two and half times more systems than OmniPath and nearly three times more versus other proprietary interconnect products.

IB accelerates 60% of the total HPC systems on the list and 48% of the Petaflop infrastructures, an increase from 45% as reported in the November 2016 TOP500 list.

Moreover, IB solutions connect world-leading artificial intelligence and deep learning platforms, including the newly listed platform from Facebook. This demonstrates the strong adoption of IB and its leading market share in HPC and artificial intelligence.

Mellanox continues to connect the fastest supercomputer on the list, delivering scalability, performance and efficiency. Mellanox Ethernet solutions also connect several of the 10GbE, all of the 40GbE systems and the first 100GbE system.

“IB’s In-Networking Computing offload advantage delivers the highest applications performance, scalability and robustness, enabling users to maximize their data center ROI. In just six months, EDR IB systems have more than doubled on the TOP500 list, and IB was chosen by far more end-users compared to a proprietary offering, maintaining its market share. In addition, IB adoption continues to ramp up in artificial intelligence and deep learning platforms, becoming the natural choice for these solutions,” said Eyal Waldman, president and CEO, Mellanox. “We are also happy to see more of our 10, 40 and 100GbE solutions on the TOP500 list, resulting in 192 systems using Mellanox interconnect solutions. Finally, we plan to release our next generation 200Gb HDR IB solutions later this year, further increasing the technology advantage of Mellanox, for high-performance computing, cloud, Web2.0, database, deep learning and compute and storage platforms.”

Published twice a year, the TOP500 list ranks the world’s most powerful computer systems according to the Linpack benchmark rating system.

Key takeaways from the list include:
   •   Mellanox accelerates the fastest supercomputer on the list
   •   IB most used HPC interconnect in first half of 2017, connecting 2.5X more new end-user projects versus Omni-Path, and 3X more versus other proprietary products
   •   Mellanox connects nearly 39% of overall TOP500 systems (192 systems, IB and Ethernet)
   •   IB connects 36% of the total TOP500 systems (179 systems)
   •   IB connects 60% of the HPC TOP500 systems
   •   IB accelerates 48% of the Petascale systems
   •   EDR IB installations grew 2.5X in six months
   •   IB provides 1.7X higher system efficiency for Petascale systems versus OmniPath
   •   Mellanox connects all of 40GE systems
   •   Mellanox connects the first 100GE system on the list
   •   IB is the most used interconnect on the TOP500 for TOP100, TOP200, and TOP300 systems
   •   IB is the preferred interconnect for artificial intelligence and deep learning systems
   •   Mellanox solutions enable highest ROI for machine learning, high-performance, cloud, storage, big data and more applications