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InfiniBand Accelerates Six of the Top Ten Supercomputers in the World, Including the Top Three, and Four of the Top Five on June’s TOP500

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INTERNATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE – Mellanox®
Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of
high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data
center servers and storage systems, today announced that the company’s
InfiniBand solutions accelerate six of the top ten High-Performance
Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Supercomputers on the
June TOP500 list. The six systems Mellanox accelerates include the top
three, and four of the top five: The fastest supercomputer in the world
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, #2 at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, #3 at Wuxi Supercomputing Center in China, #5 at Texas
Advanced Computing Center, #8 at Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology, and #10 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

HDR 200G InfiniBand, the fastest and most advanced interconnect
technology, makes its debut on the list, accelerating four
supercomputers worldwide, including the fifth top-ranked supercomputer
in the world located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, which also
represents the fastest supercomputer built in 2019.

Mellanox InfiniBand and Ethernet connect 296 systems, or 59% of overall
TOP500 platforms, demonstrating 37% growth in 12 months, from June 2018
to June 2019. This includes all of the 126 InfiniBand systems, and most
of the 25 gigabit and faster Ethernet platforms. Mellanox’s Ethernet
solutions are used in 170 Ethernet systems on the list, or 63% of the
total Ethernet platforms, demonstrating 124% growth in 12 months.

The TOP500 list has evolved in recent years to include more hyperscale,
cloud, and enterprise platforms, in addition to the HPC systems. More
than half of the systems on the June 2019 list can be categorized as
non-HPC application platforms, interconnected with Ethernet, where a
large number of these systems represents US, Chinese and other
hyperscale infrastructures.

“We are proud to connect nearly 60% of the TOP500 supercomputers with
our InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect technologies, demonstrating
growth of 37% from last year’s list. We are also proud to see the first
HDR 200 Gigabit InfiniBand supercomputers on the TOP500 list, including
the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world and the fastest
supercomputer built in 2019 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. The
innovations built into our HDR InfiniBand solutions, along with their
performance advantages, make it the best interconnect of choice for the
world’s leading compute and storage infrastructures. There are multiple
HDR InfiniBand systems around the world today serving scientific and
research activities that are not all on the TOP500 list, and we continue
to see strong momentum for this technology across all geographies,” said
Eyal Waldman, president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “We are
excited to see 170 of the Ethernet systems utilize Mellanox’s 25 Gigabit
or faster Ethernet solutions, demonstrating an increase of 124% year
over year, and the growing adoption of our Ethernet adapters, switches
and cables for hyperscale, cloud and enterprise infrastructures. The
need to analyze ever-growing amounts of data drives designing several
leading supercomputers with multiple network adapters per node for
higher data throughput. The new NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD supercomputer
utilizes ten 100 gigabit EDR InfiniBand adapters, for a total of one
Terabit of data throughput per node. We have already started designing
our NDR 400 gigabit InfiniBand generation that will power the next
generation of supercomputing and machine learning platforms.”

Published twice a year and publicly available at www.top500.org,
the TOP500 list ranks the world’s most powerful computer systems
according to the Linpack benchmark rating system. Key takeaways from the
June 2019 list include:

  • Mellanox connects 59% of overall TOP500 platforms (296 systems,
    InfiniBand and Ethernet), demonstrating 37% growth in 12 months
    (June’18-June’19)
  • HDR 200G InfiniBand accelerates 4 supercomputers – #5 (TACC – USA),
    #62 (MSU – USA), #166 (CSC – Finland), and #264 (Tsukuba – Japan)
  • InfiniBand accelerates the world’s fastest HPC/AI supercomputer – Oak
    Ridge National Laboratory ‘Summit’ supercomputer
  • InfiniBand accelerates the top 3 supercomputers in the world – #1
    (ORNL – USA), #2 (LLNL – USA), and #3 (Wuxi – China), and 6 of the top
    10 – #5 (TACC – USA), #8 (AIST – Japan), and #10 (LLNL – USA)
  • InfiniBand accelerates the fastest industrial supercomputer at Total
    Oil and Gas, #11 on the list
  • InfiniBand connects 126 supercomputers, or nearly 55% of overall HPC
    systems on the TOP500 list
  • Mellanox connects 170 Ethernet systems (25 Gigabit and faster), or 63%
    of the total Ethernet systems — 124% increase in 12 months
    (June’18-June’19)
  • The TOP500 list has evolved to include both HPC and cloud/hyperscale
    (non-HPC) platforms, where more than half of the platforms on the
    TOP500 list can be categorized as non-HPC application platforms
  • InfiniBand is the interconnect of choice for HPC and AI infrastructures
  • Mellanox Ethernet is the interconnect of choice for cloud and
    hyperscale platforms

A detailed TOP500 presentation can be found here: TOP500.

Visit Mellanox Technologies at the International Supercomputing
conference (June 17-19) Visit the Mellanox booth (#E-911) at
the International Supercomputing 2019 conference in Frankfurt, Germany,
to learn more about our InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions and the new
200G HDR InfiniBand systems, as well as to see the full suite of
Mellanox’s end-to-end high-performance products.

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About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX)
is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart
interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox
interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the
highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to
applications, unlocking system performance and improving data security.
Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters,
switches, software and silicon that accelerate application performance
and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including
cloud and hyperscale, high performance computing, artificial
intelligence, enterprise data centers, cyber security, storage,
financial services and more. More information is available at: www.mellanox.com.

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