April 19, 2010
Mellanox adapters supporting RoCE will deliver world-class latency performance over Ethernet enabling datacenter applications to scale and perform at unprecedented levels
NEW YORK, April 19 -- High Performance Computing Linux Financial Markets -- Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for datacenter servers and storage systems, today announced the company's line of 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet adapters will support the InfiniBand Trade Association's recently announced specification aimed at furthering deployment of high-performance and low-latency applications in the enterprise datacenter: Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). RoCE brings the low-latency and efficiency benefits of InfiniBand to the datacenter Ethernet fabric, and holds the promise to bring the benefits of low latency to a significantly wider class of datacenter and cloud applications.
Low-latency is a key characteristic of clusters made out of commodity x86 servers -- delivering higher transactions per second, and enabling high clustering efficiency, both leading to higher ROI and competitive advantage for organizations. This has been proven in high-performance computing, data warehousing, financial applications and increasingly in cloud deployments where clusters play a key role in delivering elasticity. IBTA based technologies have played a key role in advancing these markets and applications. RoCE brings those low-latency and efficiency benefits to the datacenter Ethernet fabric. RoCE utilizes loss less Ethernet enhancements, such as those being delivered by the work of the IEEE DCB (Data Center Bridging) Work Group to deliver superior latency and quality or service while reducing the cost and power consumption in Ethernet adapters by enabling simpler, purpose-built RDMA implementations in hardware.
"The growth of Extreme Transaction Processing (XTP) applications, and elastic compute and storage clusters for cloud computing are making low-latency Ethernet a key requirement for datacenters," said Sujal Das, senior director of product management. "We look forward to delivering to the market new RoCE-based adapter products that will allow these classes of datacenter and cloud applications to deliver significantly higher jobs per second and ROI using the Ethernet fabric."
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ:MLNX)(TASE:MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize datacenter performance. Mellanox products deliver market-leading bandwidth, performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. For the best in performance and scalability, Mellanox is the choice for Fortune 500 datacenters and the world's most powerful supercomputers. Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Yokneam, Israel. For more information, visit Mellanox at www.mellanox.com.
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Source: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
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