Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that Tencent Cloud has adopted Mellanox interconnect solutions for its high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) public cloud offering. Tencent Cloud is a secure, reliable and high-performance public cloud service that integrates Tencent's infrastructure capabilities with the advantages of a massive-user platform and ecosystem.

The Tencent Cloud infrastructure leverages Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand adapters, switches and cables to deliver advanced public cloud services. By taking advantage of Mellanox RDMA, in-network computing and other interconnect acceleration engines, Tencent Cloud can now offer high-performance computing services, as required by its users, to develop advanced applications and offer new services.

"Tencent Cloud is utilizing Mellanox interconnect and applications acceleration technology to help companies develop their next generation products and offer new and intelligent services," said Wang Huixing, vice president of Tencent Cloud. "We are excited to work with Mellanox to integrate its world-leading interconnect technologies into our public cloud offerings, and plan to continue to scale our infrastructure product lines to meet the growing needs of our customers."

"We are proud to partner with Tencent Cloud, who is leveraging our advanced interconnect technology to help build a leading high-performance computing and artificial intelligence-based public cloud infrastructure," said Amir Prescher, senior vice president of business development at Mellanox Technologies. "Through Tencent Cloud, companies will benefit from Mellanox's technology to build new products and services that can leverage faster and more efficient data analysis. We look forward to continuing to work with Tencent and expanding the use of Mellanox solutions in its cloud offering."

Mellanox interconnect solutions deliver the highest efficiency for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, cloud, storage, and other applications.