In this deck, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox provides an overview of new products for the SC15 conference. Learn more: http://mellanox.com Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-eJu Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter

1. Interconnect Your Future
Supercomputing Nov 2015
Paving the Road to Exascale

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The Ever Growing Demand for Higher Performance
2000 202020102005
“Roadrunner”
1st
2015
Terascale Petascale Exascale
Single-Core to Many-CoreSMP to Clusters
Performance Development
Co-Design
HW SW
APP
Hardware
Software
Application
The Interconnect is the Enabling Technology

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Co-Design Architecture to Enable Exascale Performance
CPU-Centric Co-Design
Limited to Main CPU Usage
Results in Performance Limitation
Creating Synergies
Enables Higher Performance and Scale
Software
Software
In-CPU
Computing
In-Network
Computing
In-Storage
Computing

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The Intelligence is Moving to the Interconnect
CPU
Interconnect
Past Future

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Co-Design Architecture Depends on Offloading Technologies
Programmability
RDMA GPUDirect Virtualization
Backward and Future Compatibility
Direct Communications
Applications (Innovations, Scalability, Performance)
Software-Defined
Network (SDN)
Co-Design Requires Intelligent Interconnect
Offloading Technologies: Intelligent Interconnect

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Breaking the Application Latency Wall
§ Today: Network device latencies are on the order of 100 nanoseconds
§ Challenge: Enabling the next order of magnitude improvement in application performance
§ Solution: Creating synergies between software and hardware – intelligent interconnect
Intelligent Interconnect Paves the Road to Exascale Performance
10 years ago
~10
microsecond
~100
microsecond
NetworkCommunication
Framework
Today
~10
microsecond
Communication
Framework
~0.1
microsecond
Network
~1
microsecond
Communication
Framework
Future
~0.05
microsecond
Co-Design
Network

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Introducing Switch-IB 2 World’s First Smart Switch

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Introducing Switch-IB 2 World’s First Smart Switch
§ The world fastest switch with <90 nanosecond latency
§ 36-ports, 100Gb/s per port, 7.2Tb/s throughput, 7.02 Billion messages/sec
§ Adaptive Routing, Congestion control, support for multiple topologies
World’s First Smart Switch
Build for Scalable Compute and Storage Infrastructures
10X Higher Performance with The New Switch SHArP Technology

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SHArP (Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation Protocol) Technology
Delivering 10X Performance Improvement
for MPI and SHMEM/PAGS Applications
Switch-IB 2 Enables the Switch Network to
Operate as a Co-Processor
SHArP Enables Switch-IB 2 to Manage and
Execute MPI Operations in the Network

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The Intelligence is Moving to the Interconnect
Communication Frameworks (MPI, SHMEM/PGAS)
The Only Approach to Deliver 10X Performance Improvements
Applications Transport
RDMA
SR-IOV
Collectives
Peer-Direct
GPUDirect
More…
MPI / SHMEM Offloads

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High-Performance Designed 100Gb/s Interconnect Solutions
Transceivers
Active Optical and Copper Cables
(10 / 25 / 40 / 50 / 56 / 100Gb/s)
VCSELs, Silicon Photonics and Copper
36 EDR (100Gb/s) Ports, <90ns Latency
Throughput of 7.2Tb/s
7.02 Billion msg/sec (195M msg/sec/port)
100Gb/s Adapter, 0.7us latency
150 million messages per second
(10 / 25 / 40 / 50 / 56 / 100Gb/s)
32 100GbE Ports, 64 25/50GbE Ports
(10 / 25 / 40 / 50 / 100GbE)
Throughput of 6.4Tb/s

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Intelligent Interconnect Delivers Higher Datacenter ROI
Users
NETWORK
COMPUTING
NETWORK
Users
Intelligence
Network Offloads
Computing for applications
Smart Network
Increase Datacenter Value
Network functions
On CPU
COMPUTING

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Mellanox InfiniBand Proven and Most Scalable HPC Interconnect
“Summit” System “Sierra” System
Paving the Road to Exascale

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Technology Roadmap – One-Generation Lead over the Competition
2000 202020102005
“Roadrunner”
Mellanox Connected
1st3rd
TOP500 2003
Virginia Tech (Apple)
2015
Terascale Petascale Exascale
10G 20G 40G 56G 100G 200G 400G
TrueScale
No-Offload Network
40G (InfiniBand)
Same PathScale Technology
Under Intel Logo
InfiniPath
No-Offload Network
20G (InfiniBand)
OmniPath
No-Offload Network
100G (Proprietary)
Same PathScale Technology
Under QLogic Logo

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Mellanox InfiniBand Solutions Deliver Highest ROI for Any Scale
100
Gb/s
Link Speed
Higher Performance
Unlimited Scalability
Higher Resiliency
Proven!
Smart Network For Smart Systems
RDMA, Acceleration Engines, Programmability 200
Gb/s
Link Speed
2014
Gain Competitive Advantage Today, Protect Your Future
1 Mellanox Estimations
25%
Lower
20%
Lower
Scalability
CPU efficiency1
Power Consumption
Per Switch Port
Switch Latency
2X
Higher
Message Rate
44%
Higher
2017

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Mellanox Delivers Best Interconnect
§ 100Gb/s throughput at 0% CPU utilization
§ Adapter: 150 Million messages/sec on today’s systems, 44% higher
§ Switch: 7.02 Billion messages/sec (195 Million per port)
§ 20% lower switch latency, with deterministic latency!
Higher
Performance
Lower
TCO
Higher
Reliability
§ 25% lower power consumption per switch port
§ Standard-based solutions, large eco-system support
§ Backward and future compatibility – protect investments
§ Offloading Architecture (RDMA, GPUDirect etc.) delivers highest system efficiency
§ 1,000X higher reliability - Mellanox delivers Bit Error Rate of 10-15 versus 10-12
§ Superior signal integrity
§ Support for Multiple data integrity mechanisms (FEC1, LLR2, COD3 and more)
1- Forward Error Correction; 2 – Link Level Retransmission; 3- Correction on Demand

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End-to-End Interconnect Solutions for All Platforms
Highest Performance and Scalability for
X86, Power, GPU, ARM and FPGA-based Compute and Storage Platforms
10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 56 and 100Gb/s Speeds
X86
Open
POWER
GPU ARM FPGA
Smart Interconnect to Unleash The Power of All Compute Architectures

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Mellanox Solutions Interconnect Your Future
The Interconnect is The Competitive Advantage
Mellanox Interconnect
Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Proven
Speed-Up Your Present, Protect Your Future
Paving The Road to Exascale Computing Together

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