Mellanox Technologies Receives Nine HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at the Supercomputing Conference 2018

HDR 200 Gigabit InfiniBand Won Four Awards for Its World-Leading In-Network Computing Acceleration Engines and Fastest Data Speed, Enabling Scalable HPC and AI Platforms

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel--()--Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that it was honored with nine HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at the Supercomputing 2018 conference. The nine awards span a variety of categories and acknowledge the company’s leadership in developing and delivering high speed interconnect solutions for high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and other compute- and storage-demanding infrastructures and applications. HDR 200 Gigabit InfiniBand won four of the nine awards due to the highest data speeds it enables, as well as its smart In-Network Computing acceleration engines for delivering highest application performance, efficiency and scalability.

“HPCwire is honored to recognize Mellanox’s technological achievements, and the industrial and research accomplishments it enables across the world,” said Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire. “This year marks the 15th anniversary of The HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, which serve as pillars in our community, acknowledging outstanding leadership and innovative breakthroughs. Achieving nine awards demonstrates that our readers and editors have recognized Mellanox’s incredible contributions to the advancement of HPC and AI.”

Mellanox was honored with the following Reader’s Choice Awards:

  • Best Use of HPC in Manufacturing: University of Birmingham with Rolls-Royce created a simulation of additive manufacturing for aerospace component applications using Lenovo, SLURM, Mellanox, and IBM, supplied by OCF.
  • Best HPC Interconnect Product or Technology: Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand
  • Top Supercomputing Achievement: ORNL, LLNL, IBM, NVIDIA and Mellanox for the launch of Summit and Sierra (#1 and #3 world-fastest supercomputers, respectively) under the CORAL acquisition project, the first-of-its-kind collaboration between the NNSA’s ASC Program and the DOE’s Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.
  • Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch: Mellanox Quantum HDR 200G InfiniBand switch
  • Top 5 Vendors to Watch

Mellanox was honored with the following Editor’s Choice Awards:

  • Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences: SciNet using Lenovo and Mellanox technologies on new Niagara-cluster-created spatial resolution models of the Pacific Ocean, helping to validate ocean waves movement and to assist in global warming calculations.
  • Best HPC Interconnect Product or Technology: Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand
  • Top Supercomputing Achievement: ORNL, LLNL, IBM, NVIDIA and Mellanox for the launch of Summit and Sierra (#1 and #3 world-fastest supercomputers, respectively) under the CORAL acquisition project, the first-of-its-kind collaboration between the NNSA’s ASC Program and the DOE’s Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.
  • Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch: Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand

“We are proud to receive nine HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice awards, for our HDR 200G InfiniBand technology, and for the world-leading HPC and AI supercomputers accelerated by our smart interconnect solutions,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “We are excited to see the first HDR 200G InfiniBand systems providing our users and partners with the most scalable and highest performance interconnect technology.”

The annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are revealed at the Supercomputing conference, which is the premier showcase for high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis products and companies. All award winners are determined through a nomination and voting process with the global HPCwire readership community, as well as selections from well-qualified HPCwire editors. More information on these awards can be found at the HPCwire website (http://www.HPCwire.com).

Visit Mellanox Technologies at SC’18 (Dallas Texas, November 12-15, 2018, booth #3207) to learn more on the new HDR 200G InfiniBand solutions and to see the full suite of Mellanox’s end-to-end high-performance InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions. For more information on Mellanox’s booth and speaking activities at SC’18, please visit: http://www.mellanox.com/sc18/.

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About Mellanox Technologies

Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart 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 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.

Note: Mellanox and Mellanox Quantum, are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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Contacts

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Press/Media Contact
Zonic Public Relations
Greg Cross, +1 925-413-5327
gcross@zonicgroup.com
or
Israel PR Contact
JWPR Public Relations and Communications
Jonathan Wolf, +972-54-22-094-22
yoni@jwpr.co.il