Mellanox InfiniBand Delivers up to 250 Percent Higher Return on Investment for High Performance Computing Platforms
April 24 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Recent Tests Demonstrate 30 to 250 Percent
Higher HPC Applications Performance and up to 50 Percent Savings on
Capital and Operation Expenses vs. Proprietary Interconnect
Offerings
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 that EDR
100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions have demonstrated from 30 to 250
percent higher HPC applications performance versus Omni-Path. These
performance tests were conducted at end-user installations and
Mellanox benchmarking and research center, and covered a variety of
HPC application segments including automotive, climate research,
chemistry, bioscience, genomics and more.
Examples of extensively used mainstream HPC applications:
- GROMACS is a molecular dynamics package
design for simulations of proteins, lipids and nucleic acids and is
one of the fastest and broadly used applications for chemical
simulations. GROMACS has demonstrated a 140 percent performance
advantage on an InfiniBand-enabled 64-node cluster.
- NAMD is highly noted for its parallel
efficiency and is used to simulate large biomolecular systems and
plays an important role in modern molecular biology. Using
InfiniBand, the NAMD application has demonstrated a 250 percent
performance advantage on a 128-node cluster.
- LS-DYNA is an advanced multi-physics
simulation software package used across automotive, aerospace,
manufacturing and bioengineering industries. Using InfiniBand
interconnect, the LS-DYNA application has demonstrated a 110
percent performance advantage running on a 32-node cluster.
Due to its scalability and offload technology advantages,
InfiniBand has demonstrated higher performance utilizing just 50
percent of the needed data center infrastructure and thereby
enabling the industry’s lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for
these applications and HPC segments. For the GROMACS application
example, a 64-node InfiniBand cluster delivers 33 percent higher
performance in comparison to a 128-node Omni-Path cluster; for the
NAMD application, a 32-node InfiniBand cluster delivers 55 percent
higher performance in comparison to a 64-node Omni-Path cluster;
and for the LS-DYNA application, a 16-node InfiniBand cluster
delivers 75 percent higher performance than a 32 node Omni-Path
cluster.
“InfiniBand solutions enable users to maximize their data center
performance and efficiency versus proprietary competitive products.
EDR InfiniBand enables users to achieve 2.5X higher performance
while reducing their capital and operational costs by 50 percent,”
said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox
Technologies. “As a standard and intelligent interconnect,
InfiniBand guarantees both backward and forward compatibility, and
delivers optimized data center performance to users for any compute
elements – whether they include CPUs by Intel, IBM, AMD or ARM, or
GPUs or FPGAs. Utilizing the InfiniBand interconnect, companies can
gain a competitive advantage, reducing their product design time
while saving on their needed data center infrastructure.”
The application testing was conducted utilizing end-user data
centers and the Mellanox benchmarking and research center. The full
report of testing conducted at end-user data centers and the
Mellanox benchmarking and research center will be available on the
Mellanox web site. For more information please contact Mellanox
Technologies.
Supporting Resources:
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Solutions
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About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier
of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect
solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged
infrastructure. Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions
increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput
and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and
unlocking system performance. Mellanox offers a choice of high
performance solutions: network and multicore processors, network
adapters, switches, cables, 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, network security, telecom and
financial services. More information is available at:
www.mellanox.com.
Disclaimer:
Testing was done using what is believed to be the most current
software and hardware configuration available in the test
infrastructures. Results may vary depending upon the particular
testing environment.
Note: Mellanox and ConnectX are registered trademarks of
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of
their respective owners.
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