Mellanox Integrates PCI Express 3.0 in FDR IniniBand

By DE Editors

Mellanox Technologies Ltd. has announced that its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE I/O solutions, with bandwidth (>12GB/s) and latency (<0.7us) performance with PCI Express 3.0 support, now accelerate multiple, large-scale system deployments.

“As we move down the path to exascale, interconnect performance becomes increasingly more important to achieving efficient performance for HPC server and storage systems,” said Rajeeb Hazra, general manager of Intel Technical Computing Group. “The introduction of PCI Express 3.0 in Mellanox's FDR InfiniBand solution and the Intel Xeon Processor E5 Family provides the bandwidth and latency improvements to deliver greater performance for our customers’ wide-range of workloads.”

“These impressive performance results reinforce Mellanox’s position as the leading industry provider of performance-based I/O solutions,” said Eyal Waldman, chairman, president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “Mellanox’s FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE I/O solutions are the industry’s only solutions that can perfectly match the performance potential of PCI Express 3.0-based server and storage systems. End-users can expect unprecedented application and job runtime benefits, as well as reduced infrastructure and power costs; an unbeatable combination.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.