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Virginia Tech Deploys Mellanox's 40Gbps InfiniBand Technology
 TMCnet Contributing Editor
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University announced today that it’s deployed Mellanox ( News - Alert) Technologies’ 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology to interconnect 29TFlops computer systems research cluster at the Center for High-End Computing Systems.
Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology offers the required scalability and performance for the CHECS research activities, according to the company. The technology will be the foundation for the development of next-generation, power-aware high-end computing resources, company officials say.
“Mellanox continues to lead the high-performance computing and enterprise data center industry with the highest performing interconnect technology that delivers unmatched performance for parallel compute clusters,” said Thad Omura, vice president of product marketing at Mellanox. “We are excited to partner with Virginia Tech for the first large-scale cluster installation using 40Gb/s InfiniBand, which leverages the mature InfiniBand ecosystem to support the ever increasing demands for efficient and scalable compute systems.”
This is not the first time that Virginia Tech has teamed with Mellanox Technologies. In 2003, Mellanox partnered with Virginia Tech to build the first 10Gb/s InfiniBand large-scale cluster.
The new system features 324 Apple ( News - Alert) Mac Pro Servers with the total of 2592 CPU cores efficiently connected with ConnectX 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and InfiniScale IV switches, and 40Gb/s copper cables from Amphenol ( News - Alert) and W.L. Gore & Associates, officials say.
CHECS will be using the system and the new InfiniBand capabilities of congestion control and adaptive routing for expanding high-end computing research activities, especially in the areas of power aware systems, transparent distributed shared memory systems and high-performance distributed storage systems, officials say.
“Our mission is to build computing systems and environments that can efficiently and usably span the scale from department-sized machines to national-scale resources, and will meet the day-to-day needs of computational scientists,” said Srinidhi Varadarajan, director of CHECS at Virginia Tech. “Mellanox’s 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology brings the necessary capabilities to our research activities and will be the focus for the design and deployment of the next generation of high-end systems.”
Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Niladri’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
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