Mellanox Technologies announced a strategic collaboration with HPE to enable the
industry's most efficient high-performance computing and machine
learning data centers, based on the innovative technologies from both
companies. The mutual solutions will enable customers to leverage the
InfiniBand and Gen-Z open standards to maximize their return on
investment for current and future data centers and applications.
Leveraging Mellanox's intelligent and In-Network Computing capabilities in ConnectX-5
InfiniBand adapters and Switch-IB2 InfiniBand switches in the recently
announced HPE SGI 8600 and HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10 systems, enables both
companies to now offer the most powerful, scalable and efficient
high-performance computing and machine learning fabric solutions in the
industry. This collaboration will enable both companies to develop
synergistic technology integration and the optimal usage of the upcoming
HDR InfiniBand Quantum switches, ConnectX-6 adapters and future Gen-Z
devices. In addition, joint development with HPE's Advanced Development
team will pave the road to Exascale computing.
Mellanox
In-Network Computing interconnect architecture provides the leading
technology to advance data processing and real time analytics, which is
critical for a diverse range of HPC and machine learning applications.
The collaboration with HPE will enable the companies to leverage the
technology advancements of HDR InfiniBand and Gen-Z to overcome
performance limitations of proprietary products and advance the levels
of compute efficiency, scalability and data processing performance.
"Data-centric
computing, In-Network computing and open standards are all necessary
for technology innovations and for achieving state-of-the-art
performance for a broad range of HPC and machine learning applications,"
said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager of HPC and AI at
HPE. "The HPE and Mellanox collaboration will enable us to bring the
solutions our customers need, based on InfiniBand and Gen-Z
capabilities, to maximize data centers efficiency, and to deliver the
highest value to our customers."
Mellanox
and HPE will showcase the new solutions at the world-wide development
and benchmarking centers and together will optimize customers'
applications and provide support in planning, developing and deploying
future data centers.
"We
have been working with HPE for more than a decade now, accelerating
many of the world's leading supercomputers," said Gilad Shainer, vice
president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "The growing demands
for faster data analysis and scalable data simulations mandates
technology innovations and collaborations around open standards, to
deliver the needed compute and storage infrastructures today and in the
future. The collaboration with HPE will enable tighter technology
development, and optimize use of the InfiniBand architecture and for
Gen-Z in the future. This will allow both companies to build the most
efficient data centers for HPC and machine learning workloads."