[November 17, 2009] Mellanox InfiniBand Adapters Available for HP Tweet Nov 18, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced its ConnectX-2 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapter cards are available now for HP ProLiant BL, DL and SL series servers, as well as HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures. Mellanox said its ConnectX-2 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapter cards with CORE-Direct enable improvements in application performance and scalability and increase the productivity of HP-based compute clusters. Mellanox reported that the ConnectX-2 is the first adapter card in the market to process in hardware application communications frequently used by scientific simulation for data broadcast, global synchronization and data collection. By offloading these collective communications, ConnectX-2 adapters help to reduce simulation completion time by accelerating the synchronization process and freeing up CPU cycles to work on the simulation, thus enabling greater scalability by eliminating system jitter and noise. "As supercomputers increase in size from mere thousands to hundreds-of-thousands of processor cores, new performance and scalability challenges have emerged," said John Monson, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "The combination of Mellanox ConnectX-2 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters with CORE-Direct application interprocessor communication offload and HP ProLiant servers provide end-customers with the highest performance, efficiency and scalability for their next-generation, high-processor node count supercomputer." "Customers with high-performance computing clusters seek solutions to improve system efficiency and resource utilization, while still reducing overhead," said Steve Cumings, director of marketing, Scalable Computing and Infrastructure organization, HP. "The combination of HP Unified Cluster Portfolio and Mellanox's ConnectX-2 InfiniBand adapters can significantly enhance customers' compute cluster application performance and scalability, while simplifying and speeding deployment." ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]