Scientific
Applications:
InfiniHost HCA PROVIDES InfiniBand
GRID CLUSTERING
Mellanox Technologies Ltd, a leading supplier of InfiniBand silicon,
announced its support of Intel Itanium 2 processor-based platforms. The
InfiniBand architecture provides an industry-standard technology for "scaling
out" compute platforms and is an ideal interconnect for developing high-
performance Itanium 2 processor-based compute grid clusters.
Industry leading Mellanox InfiniHost MT23108 HCA and Intel Itanium 2
processor are designed from the ground up to address the scalability,
availability and performance challenges presented by database and other
compute intensive applications.
InfiniHost software support for the 64-bit Itanium 2 processor is now
available within the standard SDK. The InfiniHost HCA features dual 4X
InfiniBand ports with hardware transport delivering up to 20 Gb/sec of total
I/O bandwidth, per port, to fuel the raw computational capabilities of the
Itanium 2 processor. The HCA is designed to complement Itanium 2 systems and
take advantage of the impressive processor and memory bandwidth, I/O
throughput, and memory addressability offered by the Intel E8870 chipset.
"Providing full compatibility across Intel's product line is a key goal for
us and we have achieved another milestone with the completion of our Itanium
processor port," said Michael Kagan, vice president of architecture and
software for Mellanox. "Mellanox is committed to ensuring the broadest support
with its InfiniBand host channel adapters for leading computing architectures
such as the Intel Itanium 2 processor."
"InfiniBand architecture, with its low latency and high bandwidth, is a key
interconnect technology for the scale out of Intel-architecture server
platforms," said Hemant Dhulla, Director of Advanced Components Marketing,
Intel Corporation. "The combination of Mellanox InfiniHost HCA devices and the
Itanium 2 processor and E8870 chipset-based platform provides a high-
performance solution for clustered, high-end computing."
About InfiniBand Architecture
InfiniBand Architecture is the only 10 Gb/sec ultra low latency clustering,
communication and storage interconnect in the market today. InfiniBand, based
on an industry standard, provides the most robust data center interconnect
solution available with reliability, availability, serviceability and
manageability features designed from the ground up. These parameters greatly
reduce total cost of ownership for the data center.
Low cost InfiniBand silicon that supports 10 Gb/sec RDMA transfers is
shipping today providing eight times the bandwidth of Ethernet and three times
the bandwidth of proprietary clustering interconnects. With an approved
specification for 30 Gb/sec, InfiniBand is at least a generation ahead of
competing fabric technologies today and in the foreseeable future.
About Mellanox
Mellanox is the leading supplier of InfiniBand semiconductors, providing a
complete solution including switches, host channel adapters, and target
channel adapters to the server, communications, data storage, and embedded
markets. Mellanox Technologies has delivered over 50,000 ports of InfiniBand
over two generations of 10 Gb/sec InfiniBand devices including the
InfiniBridge, InfiniScale and InfiniHost devices.
The company has strong backing from corporate investors including Dell,
IBM, Intel Capital, Sun Microsystems, and Vitesse as well as, strong venture
backing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Raza Venture Management, Sequoia
Capital, US Venture Partners, and others. Mellanox has been recognized with
awards in 2001 and 2002 from Computerworld, Network Computing, Red Herring,
and Upside magazines as a key emerging technology company. The company has
major offices located in Santa Clara, CA, Yokneam and Tel Aviv Israel.
http://www.mellanox.com
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