Recently, IBM expanded its PureSystems family with the new PureData System, which features analytics and the ability to handle big data in the box. For today’s organizations to be competitive, they need to quickly and easily analyze and explore big data—even when dealing with petabytes. The new system simplifies and optimizes the performance of data [...]
I am proud to announce that Mellanox’s SwitchX® line of InfiniBand and Ethernet switches have received a gold certification for Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) by the Internet Protocol Forum. Adding IPv6 support to our SwitchX series is another milestone for Mellanox’s InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions, and demonstrates our commitment to producing quality, interoperable InfiniBand [...]
Dell just announced today the PowerEdge C8000 series, which is the industry’s only 4U shared infrastructure solution to provide customers compute, GPU/coprocessor and storage options in a single chassis. End users deploying the PowerEdge C8000 with Mellanox fast interconnect solutions gain access to the industry-leading performance of 56Gb/s InfiniBand combined with the power of Dell’s [...]
I had the pleasure to be little bit involved in the creation of the fastest supercomputer in Asia, and the second fastest supercomputer in the world – the Dawning “Nebulae” Petaflop Supercomputer at SIAT. If we look on the peak flops capacity of the system – nearly 3 Petaflops, it is the largest supercomputer in [...]
In the introduction for the “Paving the road to Exascale” series of posts (part 1), one of the items I mentioned was the “many many cores, CPU or GPUs”. The basic performance of a given system is being measured by flops. Each CPU/GPU is capable for X amount of flops (which can be calculated as [...]
Published twice a year, the Top500 supercomputers list ranks the world fastest supercomputers and provides a great indication for HPC market trends, usage models and a tool for future predictions. The 35th release of the Top500 list was just published and according to the new results InfiniBand has become the de-facto interconnect technology for high [...]
It’s almost time for ISC’10 in Hamburg, Germany (May 31-June 3), please stop by and visit Mellanox Technologies booth (#331) to learn more about how our products deliver market-leading bandwidth, high-performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. Mellanox’s end-to-end 40Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity products deliver the industry’s [...]
Mellanox announced the immediate availability of NVIDIA GPUDirect™ technology with Mellanox ConnectX®-2 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters that boosts GPU-based cluster efficiency and increases performance by an order of magnitude over today’s fastest high-performance computing clusters. Read the entire press release here: Supporting Resources: Learn more about Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters Learn more about NVIDIA GPUDirect with Mellanox [...]
1996 was the year when the world saw the first Teraflops system. 12 years after, the first Petaflop system was built. It took the HPC world 12 years to increase the performance by a factor of 1000. Exascale computing, another performance jump by a factor of 1000 will not take another 12 years. Expectations indicate [...]
The rapid increase in the performance of graphics hardware, coupled with recent improvements in its programmability, has made graphics accelerators a compelling platform for computationally demanding tasks in a wide variety of application domains. Due to the great computational power of the GPU, the GPGPU method has proven valuable in various areas of science and [...]
