Mellanox HDR InfiniBand Solutions Accelerate New Supercomputer for Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan

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 its new generation of HDR InfiniBand solutions consisting of ConnectX®-6 adapters, Quantum™ switches, LinkX® cables and software accelerate the new supercomputer at the University of Michigan. The new supercomputer named "Great Lakes” will enhance the university research activities and provide scalable high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure for thousands of users across the university.

The new HPC and AI supercomputer was deployed by Dell EMC and includes a nearly 13,000 processor-cores unit, and a 25,600 GPU-cores unit, built in a hybrid topology, interconnected by a Mellanox smart InfiniBand network. The combined performance of both units delivers more than one Petaflop of performance.

"Access to high performance computing resources is a critical component of the University of Michigan's rich computing ecosystem,” said Ravi Pendse, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at the University of Michigan. "Investigators in emerging fields like machine learning and precision health, among many others, will see improved computing performance with Great Lakes."

"Dell EMC is thrilled to collaborate with the University of Michigan and our technology partners to bring this innovative and powerful system to such a strong community of researchers,” said Thierry Pellegrino, vice president, Dell EMC High Performance Computing. "This Great Lakes cluster will offer an exceptional boost in performance, throughput and response to reduce the time needed for University of Michigan researchers to make the next big discovery in a range of disciplines from artificial intelligence to genomics and bioscience.”

"We are proud to see the first Mellanox HDR InfiniBand ConnectX-6 adapters and Quantum switches based supercomputer in the world,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "The smart In-Network Computing acceleration engines that InfiniBand enables will deliver the highest performance, efficiency and scalability for the University of Michigan users, for both HPC and AI applications.”

The Great Lakes supercomputer is planned to run in full capacity and be available to the University of Michigan community in the first half of 2019.

Visit Mellanox Technologies at SC’18 (Dallas Texas, November 12-15, 2018, booth #3207) to learn more on the new HDR 200G InfiniBand solutions and to see the full suite of Mellanox’s end-to-end high-performance InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions. Hear Brock Palen, Director, Advanced Research Computing - Technology Services (ARC-TS), University of Michigan talk about the Great Lakes supercomputer at the Mellanox booth on Tuesday, November 13^th, at 3:30pm. For more information on Mellanox’s booth and speaking activities at SC’18, please visit: http://www.mellanox.com/sc18/.

For more information about ARC-TS, visit the University of Michigan booth (#1204A) at SC18, or visit arc-ts.umich.edu.

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About Mellanox Technologies

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 and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at: www.mellanox.com.

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