InfiniBand Leads TOP500 as Most Used Interconnect Technology for High-Performance Computing (NASDAQ:MLNX)

LEIPZIG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that InfiniBand is the most deployed interconnect solution on the TOP500 list of supercomputers. The number of InfiniBand-based supercomputers increased 8.3 percent year-over-year to 222, representing 44.4 percent of the TOP500. Mellanox InfiniBand is the only Petascale-proven, standard interconnect solution, connecting 24 out of the 48 Petaflop capable systems on the list. Overall, the number of Mellanox FDR InfiniBand connected systems grew 1.9X from June 2013 to June 2014, connecting 127 systems, showing the increased demand for higher performance, scalability and efficiency.

Mellanox Connect-IB® and ConnectX®-3 FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and SwitchX®-2-based switch systems optimize server and storage performance and provide the scalable, low-latency, and power-efficient interconnect for the world's fastest supercomputers. The advanced offloads and accelerations within Mellanox FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand solutions enable the most performance-efficient systems on the TOP500 list with a record 99.8 percent system efficiency.

InfiniBand Leads TOP500 as Most Used Interconnect Technology for High-Performance Computing (NASDAQ:MLNX)