The InfiniBand systems from Israel’s Mellanox now support 43% of the World’s 500 fastest supercomputers including the top three.  The 216 include Astra, supporting the US Dept of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and Summit – the fastest computer … Continue reading →

Israel’s Mellanox has been chosen to accelerate the new 2-Petaflop NVIDIA DGX-2 artificial intelligence (AI) system. Mellanox adapters with smart acceleration engines enable the highest performance for AI and Deep Learning applications. http://www.mellanox.com/page/press_release_item?id=2040

The world’s new fastest supercomputer is Sunway TaihuLight in Wuxi, China.  But its 93 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) are accelerated by its use of the interconnect InfiniBand solutions of Israel’s Mellanox Technologies.  InfiniBand connects 41.2 percent of the … Continue reading →

Israel’s Mellanox has launched “Spectrum” – the world’s first 100 Gigabit open Ethernet-based switch. It allows businesses to increase the bandwidth of their data centers without having to upgrade all their other equipment. (A bit nerdy, but vital to computer … Continue reading →

(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Israel’s Mellanox has launched the world’s first 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand switch. Switch-IB is the world’s fastest computer switch with 36-ports of 100Gb/s to provide 7.2Tb/s of switching capacity – 250 percent higher than any alternative and ideal … Continue reading →