Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Accelerates the Fastest Supercomputer in India
Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solution provides India's scientists
with unprecedented application performance for groundbreaking research
and development
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX) (TASE: MLNX), a leading
supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data
center servers and storage systems, today announced that India's Centre
for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) utilizes Mellanox's
end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solution to provide leading server and
storage application performance for PARAM Yuva — II; India's fastest
supercomputer. C-DAC is the premier R&D organization of the Department
of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of
Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) for carrying out R&D in
IT, electronics and associated areas.
Launched on February 8th, PARAM Yuva — II provides more than
half a Petaflop of raw compute power using hybrid compute technology
with compute co-processor and hardware accelerators. C-DAC chose
Mellanox's robust, high-speed interconnect solution due to its
performance, scalability, low power consumption, and high-efficiency
data handling.
"C-DAC's HPC programs are focused towards creating an eco-system to
derive full benefits from HPC systems to address grand challenge
problems and advancing fundamental science, research and industrial
competitiveness," said Dr. Pradeep Sinha, Senior Director, High
Performance Computing at C-DAC. "Utilizing Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s
InfiniBand interconnect solutions, the new PARAM Yuva — II cluster can
provide our users with superior application performance to further
research and development."
"Providing India's scientists with more computing power to conduct
research will lead to more scientific breakthroughs for the nation and
the rest of the world," said Marc Sultzbaugh, senior vice president of
worldwide sales at Mellanox Technologies. "Our FDR InfiniBand solution
provides India's scientists with the performance, scalability and
efficiency needed to meet the requirements of research workloads and
simulations today and into the future."
The cluster was built in conjunction with Netweb Technologies using
Tyrone-based servers.
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Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage.
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providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data
faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability.
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