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UF launches HiPerGator, the state’s most powerful supercomputer

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida today unveiled the state’s most powerful supercomputer, a machine that will help researchers find life-saving drugs, make decades-long weather forecasts and improve armor for troops. The HiPerGator supercomputer and recent tenfold increase in the size of the university’s data pipeline make UF one of the nation’s leading public [...]

Product Flash – Bridgeworks Potomac 40Gb iSCSI-to-SAS Bridge

Written By: Erin Filliater, Enterprise Market Development Manager   The amount of worldwide digital information is growing on a daily basis, and all of that data has to be stored somewhere, usually in external storage infrastructures, systems and devices.  Of course, in order for that information to be useful, you need to have fast access [...]

Mellanox Named HP’s 2012 Innovation Supplier of the Year

We’re thrilled to start out 2013 with some great news: Mellanox was named HP’s 2012 Innovation Supplier of the Year at last month’s annual HP Supplier Summit in San Francisco. Mellanox was chosen as the top supplier out of 600 worldwide contractors across all HP product lines. To determine the winner of the Innovation Supplier [...]

Mellanox InfiniBand and Ethernet RDMA Interconnect Solutions Accelerate IBM’s Virtualized Database Solutions

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 [...]

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC)

On Thursday, June 30th, 2011 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) held a ribbon cutting ceremony to inaugurate the opening of the High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) located in Livermore, CA. The innovation center helps foster and promote HPC development and product designs through collaborations between LLNL and industry. The center offers both face to [...]

Mellanox Scalable HPC Solutions with NVIDIA GPUDirect Technology Enhance GPU-Based HPC Performance and Efficiency

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 [...]

Oracle CEO Sees Expansion of InfiniBand

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 [...]

Efficiency and Utilization – Mellanox Technologies Keynote Presentation

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.

Mellanox Booth Preso @ SC09 – Efficiency and Utilization: Delivering Next Generation HPC