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November 2006 Newsletter

Mellanox Announces ConnectX Adapter Architecture at SC06

During SuperComputing 2006, Mellanox announced ConnectX™, its fourth generation adapter architecture that extends InfiniBand’s field-proven price/performance and service-oriented features by incorporating connectivity to 1- and 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabrics. For data center managers, ConnectX will enable enhanced price-performance, service-oriented I/O infrastructure, and investment protection with transparent upgrades to higher-speed protocols. For OEMs, the fourth-generation ConnectX architecture enhances server design flexibility and shortens time to revenue.

“Customers porting applications to 1U servers and server blades with little room for network connectivity (network, storage, and server) are deploying InfiniBand adapters powered by Mellanox silicon in increasing numbers,” said Brian Garrett, an industry analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. “As the market for high bandwidth low latency Mellanox silicon expands out of the high performance computing market and into the commercial computing and storage markets, ESG believes that Mellanox has made a brilliant move by incorporating 10 Gigabit Ethernet support into their amazingly affordable family of single chip solutions.”

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InfiniBand More Than Doubles Usage on TOP500 Taking Share from Ethernet and Proprietary Interconnects

InfiniBand-based supercomputer clusters increase 105% since June 2006 and 173% since November 2005

82 supercomputers are powered by InfiniBand interconnect, more than doubling the usage of InfiniBand in less than 6-months (40 supercomputers reported using InfiniBand in June 2006).

Published twice a year and publicly available at Top500.org, the TOP500 list ranks the most powerful computer systems according to the Linpack benchmark rating system and is an industry respected report which indicates usage trends in computing and interconnect solutions. Highlights of InfiniBand interconnect usage on the November 2006 TOP500 list include:

  • Three of the top ten and five of the top twelve most prestigious positions use InfiniBand – all based on Mellanox adapters and switch silicon.
  • InfiniBand is the most used high-speed, low-latency interconnect and has the greatest increase in the rate of usage.
  • InfiniBand interconnect usage has surpassed proprietary Myrinet interconnect usage.  Myrinet usage on the list has continually decreased since June 2005.
  • The average efficiency of all reported InfiniBand-based supercomputers is 71% -- significantly superior to the average efficiency of Gigabit Ethernet connected clusters at 51%.
  • Increasing InfiniBand interconnect entries replace technologies such as proprietary Myrinet (10% decline) and lower performing Gigabit Ethernet (16% decline).

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Mellanox Receives HPCwire Reader's Choice Award - Best Price/Performance HPC Networking Product or Technology

HPCwire is The Leading Source for Global News and Information Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing.

Each year, HPCwire polls their global database of readers, contributing editors and industry luminaries to determine the winners of these prestigious awards.

The HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards are determined through a survey of thousands of HPCwire readers.

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Amal M. Johnson Joins Mellanox’s Board of Directors

On November 28th, Mellanox announced the appointment of Ms. Amal M. Johnson to its distinguished Board of Directors.

“Amal provides Mellanox with significant enterprise infrastructure knowledge acquired from executive leadership roles at highly successful software and market research focused companies,” said Eyal Waldman, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mellanox Technologies. “Her guidance in expanding our enterprise-level market penetration will be extremely beneficial to Mellanox’s near and long term goals.”

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Mellanox Cluster Center

Mellanox Cluster Center offers an environment for developing, testing, benchmarking and optimizing products based on InfiniBand technology. The center, located in Santa Clara, California, provides on-site technical support and can be accessed through secure sessions onsite or remotely.

The Cluster Center provides a unique ability to access the latest InfiniBand technology, even before it is generally available to the public. It provides a development testing and tuning environment for applications to take advantages of Mellanox’s superior characteristics.

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InfiniBand in the News

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