SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced its EDR 100Gb/s solution has been selected to accelerate the new large-scale supercomputer JURECA at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, provided by T-Platforms and ParTec. Mellanox’s end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s solutions, consisting of ConnectX®-4 adapters, Switch-IB™ switch systems, LinkX™ cables, and HPC-X™ software, will enable JURECA with leading, scalable application performance and system efficiency for their variety of HPC workloads.
“The new general-purpose supercomputer JURECA will provide our scientists and researchers with ground breaking performance that will advance their key research,” said Prof. Thomas Lippert, director, Jülich Supercomputing Centre. “Taking advantage of the performance, efficiency and scalability benefits of Mellanox end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions, the JURECA system will enable our users to move our research forward more quickly.”
“Large research labs require extremely fast data access for their applications in order to conduct their research more effectively,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “Mellanox’s end-to-end EDR InfiniBand interconnect solutions provide the most efficient and scalable interconnect infrastructure to enable Jülich to increase their application performance and achieve their research goals.”
Mellanox EDR InfiniBand solutions enable the highest performance interconnect for high-performance applications. Furthermore, as a standard solution, it ensures backward and future compatibility, and support for any compute and storage platforms. Mellanox InfiniBand solutions include application acceleration engines that eliminate overheads from the CPUs and deliver highest system efficiency.
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About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at www.mellanox.com.
About Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
JSC at Forschungszentrum Jülich has operated the first German supercomputing centre since 1987. JSC operates one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, JUQUEEN. About 200 experts and contacts for all aspects of supercomputing and simulation sciences work at JSC. JSC’s research and development concentrates on mathematical modelling and numerical, especially parallel algorithms for quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, and Monte Carlo simulations. The focus in the computer sciences is on cluster computing, performance analysis of parallel programs, visualization, computational steering and grid computing. As a member of the German Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, JSC has coordinated the construction of the European research infrastructure PRACE – Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe since 2008. More information can be found at http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN/
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