Press Releases

2006

Mellanox “InfiniBand Accelerated” Supercomputers Continue Rapid Growth on Distinguished Top500

INTERNATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE 2006, DRESDEN, GERMANY – JUNE 28, 2006 – Mellanox™ Technologies Ltd, the leader in business and technical computing interconnects, today announced that InfiniBand continues to be the fastest growing cluster interconnect, according to the 27th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful computers. Sixteen new InfiniBand-based supercomputers have registered in the June 2006 list while three of the top ten most prominent ranking positions use InfiniBand interconnect – all based on Mellanox silicon solutions.

Published twice a year, the TOP500 list ranks the most powerful computer systems according to the Linpack benchmark rating system. The list, available at Top500.org, was presented by Dr. Erich Strohmaier at the International SuperComputing 2006 – the world’s leading conference on high-performance computing (HPC). Further highlights of InfiniBand interconnect usage on the June 2006 Top500 list include:

• The three most powerful supercomputers using industry-standard InfiniBand interconnect are the only entries in the top 10 that use commercially available components – the rest are built on proprietary technologies
• InfiniBand is the only high-speed, low-latency interconnect that reported an increasing rate of 33%, including 16 new supercomputers on the list, while proprietary interconnects, such as Myrinet, showed continued decline
• The average efficiency of all reported InfiniBand-based supercomputers is 72% -- far superior to the average efficiency of Gigabit Ethernet connected clusters at 53%

“InfiniBand’s continued growth matched with the decline in usage of proprietary interconnects demonstrates that high-performance compute clusters favor industry-standard technologies,” said Thad Omura, vice president of product marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “Widely available 10Gb/s and 20Gb/s InfiniBand performance interconnect solutions are proven to efficiently scale multi-thousand node supercomputers today.”

Mellanox congratulates the following 40 companies reporting InfiniBand connectivity use on the June 2006 Top500.org list:

Installation Site Rankings
4          NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS
6          Sandia National Laboratories
7          GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology
28        Virginia Tech
49        Institute of Physical and Chemical Res. (RIKEN)
56        Wright-Patterson Air Force Base/DoD ASC
65        Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas
66        University of Sherbrooke
68        Intel
69        Los Alamos National Laboratory
73        NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
74        University of North Carolina
78        NCSA
88        University of Oklahoma
90        Sun
91        KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
96        Los Alamos National Laboratory
130      NCSA
138      Classified
139      Hewlett-Packard
190      IBM On Demand Center
191      IBM On Demand Center
192      IBM On Demand Center
210      Hewlett-Packard
224      Galactic Computing (Shenzhen) Ltd.
230      Los Alamos National Laboratory
255      Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
280      The University of Florida High-Performance Computing Center
299      CINECA
367      Trinity College Dublin
436      SARA (Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum)
450      Sandia National Laboratories
452      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
455      Intel
460      Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas
464      CILEA
465      NERSC/LBNL
483      AMD Developer Center
488      Arizona State University High Performance Computing Center
490      United Institute of Informatics Problems

About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies is the leader in high-performance interconnect solutions that consolidate communications, computing, management, and storage onto a single fabric. Based on InfiniBand technology, Mellanox adapters and switch silicon are the foundation for virtualized data centers and high-performance computing fabrics that deliver optimal performance, scalability, reliability, manageability and total cost of ownership.

Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information on Mellanox’s solutions, please visit www.mellanox.com.

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Brian Sparks
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