Jülich Supercomputing Centre Selects Mellanox End-to-End EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Solution for New Supercomputer System

Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd.

, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced its EDR 100Gb/s solution has been selected to accelerate the new large-scale supercomputer JURECA at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, provided by T-Platforms and ParTec. Mellanox's end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s solutions, consisting of ConnectX®-4 adapters, Switch-IB™ switch systems, LinkX™ cables, and HPC-X™ software, will enable JURECA with leading, scalable application performance and system efficiency for their variety of HPC workloads. "The new general-purpose supercomputer JURECA will provide our scientists and researchers with ground breaking performance that will advance their key research," said Prof. Thomas Lippert, director, Jülich Supercomputing Centre. "Taking advantage of the performance, efficiency and scalability benefits of Mellanox end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions, the JURECA system will enable our users to move our research forward more quickly." "Large research labs require extremely fast data access for their applications in order to conduct their research more effectively," said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "Mellanox's end-to-end EDR InfiniBand interconnect solutions provide the most efficient and scalable interconnect infrastructure to enable Jülich to increase their application performance and achieve their research goals." Mellanox EDR InfiniBand solutions enable the highest performance interconnect for high-performance applications. Furthermore, as a standard solution, it ensures backward and future compatibility, and support for any compute and storage platforms. Mellanox InfiniBand solutions include application acceleration engines that eliminate overheads from the CPUs and deliver highest system efficiency. Supporting Resources: Learn more about ConnectX-4 Learn more about Switch-IB Learn more about LinkX cables and modules Learn more about HPC-X Follow Mellanox on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linked-In, and YouTube Join the Mellanox Community