By brian on April 13, 2010
Announced last week, the Russia TOP50 lists the fastest computers in Russia ranked according to Linpack benchmark results. This list provides an important tool for tracking usage trends in high-performance computing in Russia. Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and switches enable the fastest supercomputer on the Russian Top50 Supercomputer list with peak performance of 414 teraflops. [...]
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By brian on March 26, 2010
During Oracle’s recent earnings conference call, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison noted that the Oracle Sun Exadata – with Mellanox InfiniBand – continues to gain market adoption with its stunning database and transaction performance at over 10X of that of its competitors. Ellison also spoke to Oracle’s intention to port additional middleware and applications over the [...]
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By brian on February 19, 2010
Interesting article just came out from Dave Raffo at SearchStorage.com. I have a quick summary below but you should certainly read the full article here: “Health care system rolls its own data storage ‘cloud’ for researchers.” Partners HealthCare, a non-profit organization founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, is an [...]
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By brian on December 8, 2009
Eyal Waldman, Chairman, President and CEO of Mellanox Technologies provides an overview of how Mellanox’s connectivity solutions provide the key ingredients for sustainable HPC by delivering industry-leading performance, efficiency and utilization.
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By brian on December 8, 2009
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By brian on October 7, 2009
InfiniBand and Ethernet are the leading interconnect solutions for connecting servers and storage systems in high-performance computing and in enterprise (virtualized or not) data centers. Recently, the HPC Advisory Council has put together the most comprehensive database for high-performance computing applications to help users understand the performance, productivity, efficiency and scalability differences between InfiniBand and [...]
Posted in 10 Gigabit Ethernet, data center, HPC, infiniband, virtualization
By brian on September 21, 2009
Today we launched ConnectX®-2 EN 40G converged network adapter card, the world’s first 40 Gigabit Ethernet adapter solution. ConnectX-2 EN 40G enables data centers to maximize the utilization of the latest multi-core processors, achieve unprecedented Ethernet server and storage connectivity, and advance LAN and SAN unification efforts. Mellanox’s 40 Gigabit Ethernet converged network adapter sets [...]
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By brian on September 21, 2009
High-performance computing provides an invaluable role in research, product development and education. It helps accelerate time to market, and provides significant cost reductions in product development and tremendous flexibility. One strength in high-performance computing is the ability to achieve best sustained performance by driving the CPU performance towards its limits. Over the past decade, high-performance [...]
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By brian on September 9, 2009
VMworld was everything we expected and more. The traffic was tremendous and we had a lot of excitement and buzz in our booth (especially after we won the Best of VMworld in the Cloud Computing category). Just in case you were unable to sit through one of Mellanox’s presentations, or from one of our partners [...]
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By brian on September 3, 2009
We were very excited to announce today that the Intalio|Cloud Appliance, accelerated by Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand, has received a Best of VMworld 2009 award in the Cloud Computing Technologies category. It’s not too late to see what the fuss is all about. The Intalio|Cloud Appliance is being demonstrated at our booth (#2220) at VMworld in San [...]
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