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Mellanox InfiniBand Interconnect The Fabric of Choice for Clustering and Storage

Mellanox InfiniBand Interconnect The Fabric of Choice for Clustering and Storage. September 2008. Gilad Shainer – Director of Technical Marketing. Company Overview. Silicon-based server and storage interconnect products R&D, Operations in Israel; Business in California

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Mellanox InfiniBand Interconnect The Fabric of Choice for Clustering and Storage

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  1. Mellanox InfiniBand InterconnectThe Fabric of Choice for Clustering and Storage September 2008 Gilad Shainer – Director of Technical Marketing

  2. Company Overview • Silicon-based server and storage interconnect products • R&D, Operations in Israel; Business in California • Four generations of products since 1999 • 250+ employees; worldwide sales & support • InfiniBand and Ethernet leadership • Foundation for the world’s most powerful computer • 3.7M 10/20/40Gb/s ports shipped as of Jun08 • Proven execution, high-volume manufacturing & quality • Solid financial position • FY’07 $84.1M, 73% growth from FY’06 • Record Revenue in 2Q’08, $28.2M • 1H’08 $53.4M, 3Q’08 est. $28.5M-$29M • Tier-one, diversified customer base • Includes Cisco, Dawning, Dell, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM, NEC, NetApp, QLogic, SGI, Sun, Supermicro, Voltaire $106M raised in IPO Feb07Ticker MLNX

  3. High Throughput - 40Gb/s Low latency - 1us Low CPU overhead Kernel bypass Remote DMA (RDMA) Reliability InfiniBand End-to-End Products Adapter ICs & Cards Adapter ICs & Cards End-to-End Validation Switch ICs Software Cables ADAPTER Cables ADAPTER SWITCH Blade/Rack Servers Storage Switch Maximum Productivity

  4. Virtual Protocol Interconnect … App1 App2 App3 App4 AppX Applications Consolidated Application Programming Interface Networking TCP/IP/UDP Sockets Storage NFS, CIFS, iSCSINFS-RDMA, SRP, iSER, Fibre Channel, Clustered Clustering MPI, DAPL, RDS, Sockets Management SNMP, SMI-SOpenView, Tivoli, BMC, Computer Associates Protocols Networking Clustering Storage Virtualization RDMA Acceleration Engines 10/20/40 InfiniBand 10GigE Data Center Ethernet Any Protocol over Any Convergence Fabric

  5. The Fastest InfiniBand Technology • InfiniBand 40Gb/s QDR in full productions • Multiple sites already utilized InfiniBand QDR performance • ConnectX InfiniBand - 40Gb/s server and storage adapter • 1usec application latency, zero scalable latency impact • InfiniScale IV - 36 InfiniBand 40Gb/s switch device • 3Tb/s switching capability in a single switch device

  6. InfiniBand QDR Switches • 1RU 36-port QSFP, QDR switch • Up to 2.88Tb/s switching capacity • Powered connectors for active cables • Available now • 19U 18 slot chassis, 324-port QDR switch • Up to 25.9Tb/s switching capacity • 18 QSFP ports per switch blade • Available: Q4 2009

  7. InfiniBand Technology Leadership • Industry Standard • Hardware, software, cabling, management • Design for clustering and storage interconnect • Price and Performance • 40Gb/s node-to-node • 120Gb/s switch-to-switch • 1us application latency • Most aggressive roadmap in the industry • Reliable with congestion management • Efficient • RDMA and Transport Offload • Kernel bypass • CPU focuses on application processing • Scalable for Petascale computing & beyond • End-to-end quality of service • Virtualization acceleration • I/O consolidation Including storage The InfiniBand Performance Gap is Increasing 240Gb/s (12X) 120Gb/s 80Gb/s (4X) 60Gb/s 40Gb/s Ethernet 20Gb/s Fibre Channel InfiniBand Delivers the Lowest Latency

  8. InfiniBand 40Gb/s QDR Capabilities • Performance driven architecture • MPI latency 1us, Zero scalable latency • MPI bandwidth 6.5GB/s bi-dir, 3.25GB/s uni-dir • Enhanced communication • Adaptive/static routing, congestion control • Enhanced Scalability • Communication/Computation overlap • Minimizing systems noise effect (DOE funded project) 8-cores 16-cores

  9. HPC Advisory Council • Distinguished HPC alliance (OEMs, IHVs, ISVs, end-users) • Members activities • Qualify and optimize HPC solutions • Early access to new technology, mutual development of future solutions • Outreach • A community effort support center for HPC end-users • End-User Cluster Center • End- user support center • For details – HPC@mellanox.com

  10. Thank YouHPC@mellanox.com 10

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