Presented during SuperComputing 2013 by Yoni Luzon

1. Interconnect Your Future with Connect-IB
Supercomputing 2013

2. The Only Provider of End-to-End 40/56Gb/s Solutions
Comprehensive End-to-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Portfolio
ICs
Adapter Cards
Switches/Gateways
Host/Fabric Software
Metro / WAN
Cables/Modules
From Data Center to Metro and WAN
X86, ARM and Power based Compute and Storage Platforms
The Interconnect Provider For 10Gb/s and Beyond
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3. Technology Roadmap – One-Generation Lead over the Competition
Mellanox
56Gbs
40Gbs
20Gbs
Terascale
Petascale
3rd
“Roadrunner”
Virginia Tech (Apple)
Mellanox Connected
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Exascale
1st
TOP500 2003
2000
200Gbs
100Gbs
2005
Mega Supercomputers
2010
2015
2020
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4. Mellanox Connect-IB Adapter Delivers Highest Clustering ROI
 The 7th generation of Mellanox interconnect adapters, based on the new Exascale architecture
 World’s first 100Gb/s interconnect adapter (dual-port FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand)
 Delivers 137 million messages per second – 4X higher than competition / previous generations
 Support the new innovative InfiniBand scalable transport – Dynamically Connected
 Accelerates applications performance – cases of 200% higher performance than competition
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6. Dynamically Connected Transport Performance Advantages
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7. Connect-IB Provides Highest Server and Storage Throughput
Connect-IB FDR
(Dual ports)
Higher is Better
Connect-IB FDR
(Dual ports)
ConnectX-3 FDR
ConnectX-3 FDR
Connect-2 QDR
Connect-2 QDR
Competition (InfiniBand)
Competition (InfiniBand)
Source: Prof. DK Panda
Performance Leadership
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8. Connect-IB Delivers Highest Application Performance
 WIEN2k is a quantum mechanical simulation software
 FDR InfiniBand delivers scalable performance
 Connect-IB adapter demonstrates 200% higher performance versus competition
WIEN2k Performance
200
Performance Rating (Jobs/Day)
Higher is Better
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
80
160
320
Number of Cores
Competition (InfiniBand)
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ConnectX-3 FDR
Connect-IB FDR
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9. Connect-IB Delivers Highest Application Performance
 Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulation software
 Connect-IB delivers 54% higher performance versus competition
WRF Performance
(conus12km)
2500
Performance (Jobs/Day)
Higher is Better
3000
2000
1500
1000
500
0
320
640
Number of Cores
Competition (InfiniBand)
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ConnectX-3 FDR
Connect-IB FDR
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10. GPUDirect RDMA Technology
Transmit
1
System
Memory
CPU
GPU
GPUDirect 1.0
Chip
set
Chip
set
InfiniBand
CPU
1
Receive
GPU
InfiniBand
GPU
Memory
Memory
1
CPU
CPU
1
GPU
System
Memory
System
Memory
GPU
Chip
set
Chip
set
System
Memory
GPU
InfiniBand
GPU
Memory
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InfiniBand
GPUDirect RDMA
GPU
Memory
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11. Performance of MVAPICH2 with GPUDirect RDMA
GPU-GPU Internode MPI Bandwidth
GPU-GPU Internode MPI Latency
Small Message Latency
Small Message Bandwidth
900
35
MVAPICH2-1.9
MVAPICH2-1.9
800
MVAPICH2-1.9-GDR
MVAPICH2-1.9-GDR
Higher is Better
30
Lower is Better
Latency (us)
25
19.78
20
15
69 %
10
Bandwidth (MB/s)
700
600
500
3x
400
300
200
5
100
6.12
0
0
1
4
16
64
256
1K
Message Size (bytes)
69% Lower Latency
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4K
1
4
16
64
256
Message Size (bytes)
1K
4K
Source: Prof. DK Panda
3X Increase in Throughput
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12. Performance of MVAPICH2 with GPU-Direct-RDMA
Execution Time of HSG
(Heisenberg Spin Glass)
Application with 2 GPU Nodes
Source: Prof. DK Panda
Problem Size
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13. The Only Provider of End-to-End 40/56Gb/s Solutions
Comprehensive End-to-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Portfolio
ICs
Adapter Cards
Switches/Gateways
Host/Fabric Software
Metro / WAN
Cables/Modules
From Data Center to Metro and WAN
X86, ARM and Power based Compute and Storage Platforms
The Interconnect Provider For 10Gb/s and Beyond
© 2013 Mellanox Technologies
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14. Thank You
Thank You
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