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Japanese Kyushuk University HPC Accelerated by Mellanox InfiniBand

On Fujitsu supercomputer

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that Research Institute for Information Technology (RIIT) at the Kyushu University, Japan, will introduce Mellanox EDR IB smart interconnect solutions for their new supercomputer, a Fujitsu-built system comprised of a PRIMERGY server solution.

The IB technology provides the university with smart accelerations, enabling in-network-computing. This ensures faster data processing, higher performance, and efficiency for the various applications workloads. The system is planned to be operational by January 2018, and to deliver over 10 petaflops of peak computing power.

As one of the super-computing centers for academic research, RIIT at Kyushu University provides HPC resources for study in fluid dynamic analysis, molecular science and other scientific disciplines across Japan. The supercomputer will address the growing computational needs, and be able to support data-science applications as well.

For the past five years, RIIT has been using Mellanox IB solutions for our high-performance computing systems,” said Takeshi Nanri, associate professor, RIIT of Kyushu University. “Because of the superior performance and stability, we have great confidence in Mellanox’s IB solution to power our upcoming super-computing platform. The 100G IB EDR solution assists us to migrate to the in-network-computing architecture, which enables faster data analysis and the highest system efficiency of our applications.

The EDR IB solutions enable in-network computing through smart offload engines, including the SHARP, Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol technology. This technology analyzes data as it being transferred within the network so that a large portion of its burden is offloaded from the communication layers into the network hardware. This results in an order of magnitude applications performance improvement.

We are delighted to work with the university and Fujitsu to deliver the most advanced super-computing platform,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “Our EDR IB solutions provide the highest performance and scalability due to the smart offloading architecture. Furthermore, as a standard technology, IB ensures backward and forward compatibility, which protects the university investment and provides them with the best ROI.

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