NEC SX-Aurora Tsubasa Systems With Mellanox ConnectX IB Adapters

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced in collaboration with NEC Corporation support for the newly announced SX-Aurora TSUBASA systems with its ConnectX IB adapters.

NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Interconnect

A typical Aurora server platform includes from one to four IB adapters. The top-of-the-line Aurora platform utilizes 32 ConnectX adapters to support 64 vector engines in a single system. The SX-Aurora TSUBASA systems leverage general-purpose vector-based NEC co-processors and Mellanox in-network computing interconnect accelerators to achieve high application performance and scalability.

“We appreciate the performance, efficiency and scalability advantages that Mellanox interconnect solutions bring to our platform,” said Shigeyuki Aino, assistant GM system platform business unit, IT platform division, NEC. “The in-network computing and PeerDirect capabilities of IB are the perfect complement to the unique vector processing engine architecture we have designed for our SX-Aurora TSUBASA platform.”

“Mellanox is proud to work with NEC to enable a next-generation computational platform for high-performance computing, machine learning, cloud and more,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “The combination of Mellanox ConnectX adapters, in-network computing, and acceleration engines, with NEC vector processing, provides our users with a world-leading compute platform that enables the highest application performance and the best ROI.”

Mellanox IB solutions deliver efficiency for high performance, AI, cloud, storage and more infrastructures. They accelerate all of the compute architectures – X86, Power, GPU, ARM, FPGA and Vector-based compute and storage platforms – delivering high flexibility and ROI.