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RDMA – Cloud providers “secret sauce”
Written By: Eli Karpilovski, Manager, Cloud Market Development With expansive growth expected in the cloud-computing market, some researches expects the market will grow from $70.1 billion in 2012 to $158.8 billion in 2014 – cloud service providers must find ways to provide increasingly sustainable performance. At the same time, they must accommodate an increasing [...]
RDMA Interconnects for Storage: Fast, Efficient Data Delivery
Written By: Erin Filliater, Enterprise Market Development Manager We all know that we live in a world of data, data and more data. In fact, IDC predicts that in 2015, the amount of data created and replicated will reach nearly 8 Zettabytes. With all of this data stored in external storage systems, the way data [...]
Microsoft WHQL Certified Mellanox Windows OpenFabrics Drivers
Last week, Mellanox released the latest Microsoft WHQL certified Mellanox WinOF 2.0 (Windows OpenFabrics) drivers. This provides superior performance for low-latency, high-throughput clusters running on Microsoft Windows® HPC Server 2008. You may be asking yourself, how does this address my cluster computing needs? Does the Windows OFED stack released by Mellanox provide the same performance [...]
QuickTransit Performance Results
As previously suggested, I will review in this post a different application that is focused on converting protocols. QuickTransit, developed by a company called Transitive (recently acquired by IBM), is a cross-platform virtualization technology which allows applications that have been compiled for one operating system and processor to run on servers that use a different [...]
Chilean Stock Exchange Streamlines Securities Transactions With IBM
In case you missed it, IBM recently made an announcement regarding their WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging running over native InfiniBand enabled Blade Servers. The performance the Chiliean Stock Exchange is seeing is really impressive – 3000 orders per second with latency reduced by 100x of its current level. Latency performance is very critical for [...]
Hitting the New Year Running – Virtualization
You don’t have to ask – vacation was awesome and as always not as long as we would like it to be. Now that we’ve taken the rust off our fingers, we’ve made progress with a bit more complex testbed. We’ve decided to look at the virtualization space and run our next application on top [...]
Enabling the middle-ware to be super fast
As promised in my last post, and after reviewing the OP-EX and CAP-EX saving provided by looking at a Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) oriented data center, we need to look at how the business can benefit from using such unified systems. As described in my first post, we will be using off-the-shelf market-known applications from [...]
Look at this beautiful rack!
This week’s blog is short, but it’s about the candy: the Rack — the Data Center’s building block. The pictures below visually describe what each one of us would like to have in their Data Center. Density – over 150 cores within less then 10U. Three different interconnects, 1GigE, 10GigE and 40Gb/s InfiniBand, using two [...]
System Picking: Ready, Set, Go!
To recap my previous post, we’ve been setting the stage upon which vendors were to be evaluated and we’re ready for the “big race” (which we’ll do without “naming names”): System: I’ve considered 2 different dense systems which both followed the CPU and memory requirements: dual-socket quad core, 16GB memory (2GB per core), and support [...]
Enterprise Data Center: Picking Hardware Can Be Hard Work
Re-capping last week’s post…I knew we wanted to have a system which would contain all the building blocks of the data center in a single (easily expendable) rack. Internally for Mellanox, I felt we should review the full procurement process to understand and provide data-center managers with better understanding/knowledge of the hard, and proven to be sometimes painful, [...]