Today,
E8 Storage announced the availability
of InfiniBand support for its high performance, NVMe storage solutions. E8 Storage support for
InfiniBand will be seamless for customers who now have the
flexibility to connect via Ethernet or InfiniBand when paired with Mellanox
ConnectX InfiniBand/VPI adapters.
"InfiniBand
connectivity combined with the full potential of flash as delivered by E8 Storage
is an almost unstoppable partnership in terms of speed, low latency and
scalability. Together, this makes E8 Storage and Mellanox a powerful
combination for data center implementations and for databases that drive
financial trading systems, real-time data analytics, and healthcare
applications," commented Scott Sinclair, senior analyst at ESG.
The
move comes as a direct response to HPC customers that wish to take advantage of
the high speed, low latency throughput of InfiniBand for their data hungry
applications. The announcement also strengthens E8 Storage's
long-standing technology partnership with Mellanox that originally enabled the
integration of E8 Storage's rack scale flash
architecture with selected Mellanox adapters.
"As
our economy becomes more digitally-defined, HPC environments play a critical
role in unlocking and harnessing the transformational power of data," continued
Sinclair.
This
relationship allows E8 Storage systems to attach directly to
existing RDMA high performance networks over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) or
InfiniBand connections and makes E8 Storage's full support of InfiniBand
possible especially in HPC environments where the majority of InfiniBand
adoption is occurring. Like Ethernet, the InfiniBand products perform
at 100Gb/s allowing enhanced scalability as E8 Storage
solutions are deployed.
According
to the most recent Top 500 supercomputer
rankings (Nov 2017),
InfiniBand is the second most-used internal system interconnect technology.
Further, in a recent evaluation by Gilad Shainer,
vice president of marketing for HPC products at Mellanox Technologies,
Mellanox accounts for 62 percent share of the compute clustering of the true
HPC systems.
"We
are very pleased that E8 Storage is expanding this
partnership to offer full support for our InfiniBand
products. Working closely together, our combined products can deliver the
lightning-fast and highly scalable network necessary to power data intensive
applications, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning that now
drive today's economy," said Scot Schultz, Senior Director, HPC/AI and Technical
Computing, Mellanox Technologies.
E8 Storage is also a sponsor of the IBM
Spectrum Scale (GPFS) User Group which will be held in London from April 18-19,
2018. The event features Spectrum Scale filesystem experts sharing the latest
updates.
"Today
we demonstrate once again that E8 Storage's architecture can expand,
evolve and always extract the full potential of flash performance,"
comments Zivan Ori, co-founder and CEO of E8 Storage.
"Partnering with market leaders like Mellanox that deliver the very best
network connectivity technology ensures we continue to meet and, frequently,
exceed the needs of our HPC customers even in their most demanding
environments."
To
learn more about E8 Storage, visit https://e8storage.com.