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Mellanox InfiniBand InterconnectThe Fabric of Choice for Clustering and Storage
September 2008
Gilad Shainer – Director of Technical Marketing
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Company Overview
Silicon-based server and storage interconnect products• R&D, Operations in Israel; Business in California• Four generations of products since 1999• 250+ employees; worldwide sales & support
InfiniBand and Ethernet leadership• Foundation for the world’s most powerful computer• 3.7M 10/20/40Gb/s ports shipped as of Jun08• Proven execution, high-volume manufacturing & quality
Solid financial position• FY’07 $84.1M, 73% growth from FY’06• Record Revenue in 2Q’08, $28.2M• 1H’08 $53.4M, 3Q’08 est. $28.5M-$29M
Tier-one, diversified customer base• Includes Cisco, Dawning, Dell, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM, NEC,
NetApp, QLogic, SGI, Sun, Supermicro, Voltaire
$106M raised in IPO Feb07Ticker MLNX
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InfiniBand End-to-End Products
High Throughput - 40Gb/s Low latency - 1us Low CPU overhead
Kernel bypass Remote DMA (RDMA) Reliability
Blade/Rack Servers StorageSwitch
ADAPTER ADAPTERSWITCH
Adapter ICs & Cards
Cables
Switch ICs
Software
End-to-End Validation
Maximum Productivity
Cables
Adapter ICs & Cards
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Virtual Protocol Interconnect
StorageNFS, CIFS, iSCSI
NFS-RDMA, SRP, iSER,Fibre Channel, Clustered
NetworkingTCP/IP/UDP
Sockets
ClusteringMPI, DAPL, RDS, Sockets
ManagementSNMP, SMI-S
OpenView, Tivoli, BMC, Computer Associates
10/20/40 InfiniBand
Consolidated Application Programming Interface
App1 App2 App3 App4 AppX…
Acceleration Engines
10GigE Data CenterEthernet
Any Protocol over Any Convergence Fabric
Protocols
Applications
Networking VirtualizationClustering Storage RDMA
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The Fastest InfiniBand Technology
InfiniBand 40Gb/s QDR in full productions• Multiple sites already utilized InfiniBand QDR performance
ConnectX InfiniBand - 40Gb/s server and storage adapter• 1usec application latency, zero scalable latency impact
InfiniScale IV - 36 InfiniBand 40Gb/s switch device• 3Tb/s switching capability in a single switch device
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InfiniBand QDR Switches
1RU 36-port QSFP, QDR switch• Up to 2.88Tb/s switching capacity• Powered connectors for active cables• Available now
19U 18 slot chassis, 324-port QDR switch• Up to 25.9Tb/s switching capacity• 18 QSFP ports per switch blade• Available: Q4 2009
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InfiniBand Technology Leadership
Industry Standard• Hardware, software, cabling, management• Design for clustering and storage interconnect
Price and Performance• 40Gb/s node-to-node• 120Gb/s switch-to-switch• 1us application latency• Most aggressive roadmap in the industry
Reliable with congestion management Efficient
• RDMA and Transport Offload• Kernel bypass• CPU focuses on application processing
Scalable for Petascale computing & beyond
End-to-end quality of service Virtualization acceleration I/O consolidation Including storage InfiniBand Delivers the Lowest Latency
The InfiniBand Performance Gap is Increasing
Fibre Channel
Ethernet
60Gb/s
20Gb/s
120Gb/s
40Gb/s
240Gb/s (12X)
80Gb/s (4X)
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InfiniBand 40Gb/s QDR Capabilities
Performance driven architecture • MPI latency 1us, Zero scalable latency• MPI bandwidth 6.5GB/s bi-dir, 3.25GB/s uni-dir
Enhanced communication• Adaptive/static routing, congestion control
Enhanced Scalability• Communication/Computation overlap• Minimizing systems noise effect (DOE funded project)
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HPC Advisory Council
Distinguished HPC alliance (OEMs, IHVs, ISVs, end-users) Members activities
• Qualify and optimize HPC solutions • Early access to new technology, mutual development of future solutions• Outreach
A community effort support center for HPC end-users• End-User Cluster Center• End- user support center
For details – [email protected]
