Mellanox Unveils 120Gb/s InfiniBand Switch Systems

Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced what it called the world's first 120Gb/s per port InfiniBand switch systems, delivering throughput, performance, efficiency, and low latency.

Mellanox stated that, based upon InfiniScale IV, Mellanox's 4th generation of InfiniBand switch silicon, the new members of the IS5000 switch system family deliver the highest networking bandwidth per port to enable the next generation of high-performance computing, cloud infrastructures and enterprise data centers. The new switch solutions reduce network congestion and the number of network cables by a factor of three, according to the company, to provide customers with the optimal combination of cost-effective, proven performance and efficiency enhancements to address next-generation, Petascale computing demands.

"As supercomputers scale, new challenges are created in performance and cabling," said John Monson, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "Mellanox's new comprehensive family of 120Gb/s switch solutions deliver the performance, density and scalability for large-scale clusters, and provide researchers with essential building blocks for constructing the next generation of Petascale-class clusters."

Mellanox reported that its IS5000 family of switch systems, consisting of un-managed and managed edge switches and director-class modular switches, provide 51.8 Tb/s of non-blocking bandwidth in a single enclosure. FabricIT fabric management software reduces management overhead by providing the essential capabilities for managing systems at scale with simplicity and flexibility. IT managers can optimize data center performance and efficiency with FabricIT's performance monitoring, granular Quality of Service, and dynamic adaptation of the network to meet application demands in real-time. By enabling IT managers to adapt networking settings by application demands in real time, the IS5000 products deliver maximum systems productivity and efficiency for any usage model and for any scale.

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