Chinese Weather Research Institute Selects Mellanox IB

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that a Chinese weather research institute has selected its EDR 100 Gb IB solutions, replacing the Intel OmniPath network in an existing data center infrastructure.

Rigid performance testing of the institute weather and climate forecasting applications demonstrated 1.9 times performance advantage with IB versus OmniPath. As a result, the institute has requested H3C Technologies Co. Ltd. (H3C), a server and storage OEM, to replace the previously installed OmniPath proprietary network with EDR IB. Utilizing the IB technology advantages and its smart data accelerations, the institute can improve their applications performance and maximize their data center ROI.

“IB is proven to deliver world-leading performance for high performance and artificial intelligence applications,” said Gilad Shainer, VP marketing, Mellanox. “With its native RDMA technology, smart acceleration and application offload engines, IB enables our customers to maximize their data center ROI and to achieve the maximum performance for their applications.“

Mellanox offers special programs for data center managers and users seeking to improve their existing data center performance by leveraging the leading IB interconnect technology and solutions.

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