InfiniBand Gold (IBGold) Collection High Performance Interconnect Software for HPC and Enterprise Data Centers

IBGold is no longer supported by Mellanox. Mellanox recommends and supports the Open Fabrics Enterprise distribution (OFED)

The below is for information and legacy purposes only.

Overview

Use of clustered commodity servers, in lieu of traditional supercomputers and mainframes, offers tremendous price/performance benefits and unparalleled flexibility in deployment and long-term maintenance. To enable distributed computing transparently, HPC applications require the highest bandwidth and lowest possible latency. In enterprise data center (EDC) applications, these requirements are compounded with the need to support a large interoperable ecosystem of networking, virtualization, storage, and other applications and interfaces. The IBGold Collection from Mellanox Technologies is designed, packaged and supported to enable OEMs to meet the needs of HPC and EDC applications.

BENEFITS

• Single software stack that operates across all available InfiniBand devices and configurations such as mem-free, DDR/SDR, PCI-X, and PCI Express modes
• Support for HPC applications for scientific research, oil and gas exploration, car crash tests, bench marking etc.
• Support for EDC applications such as Oracle RAC, IBM DB2, SAP, and financial applications
• Support for traditional IP and Sockets based applications, both over TCP/IP, as well utilizing RDMA and kernel bypass modes for higher performance, lower CPU utilization and lower latency
• Support for high performance block storage applications utilizing RDMA benefits
• Support for cluster file systems for high performance and virtualized file system access
• Support for cluster management tool