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July 15, 2008

Mellanox Establishes HPC Advisory Council

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Over 40 vendors and end-users pledge to accelerate HPC innovation, market expansion and support network

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and YOKNEAM, Israel, July 15 -- Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced the formation of the HPC Advisory Council, a distinguished high-performance computing ecosystem that includes best-in-class original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), strategic technology suppliers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and selected end-users across the entire range of HPC market segments. The council was formed to accelerate HPC innovations and new technologies, optimize system performance, efficiency and scalability and provide the best total solution to the end-user. The council will also collaborate to extend the reach of HPC into new market segments, which have been traditionally governed by single workstations, but currently require the performance of HPC clustering to meet current and future end-user requirements.

The growing list of companies and end-user organizations that have joined the HPC Advisory Council include: AMD, Appro, Blue Ridge Numerics, Colfax International, DataDirect Networks, Dell, Evergrid, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, GigaSpaces Technologies, HCL Infosystems, HP, Intel, The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT), Lamprey Networks, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, LSI Corporation., Mellanox Technologies, Microsoft, Microway, NEC Corporation of America, Netweb Technologies, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Ohio State University, RNA Networks, SGI, Scalable Graphics, ScaleMP, Schlumberger, Silicon Mechanics, SoftModule, Sun Microsystems, System Fabrics Works, Terascala, The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, Voltaire, VXTECH, Wipro InfoTech, Wolfram Research, Z Research and various individuals. For joining the HPC Advisory Council, visit http://www.mellanox.com/partners/HPC_Advisory_Council.php or contact hpc@mellanox.com.

"The HPC Advisory Council was formed with the main goal to create best practices within the HPC market segments, particularly qualifying and optimizing HPC solutions, while also providing a common support center for consultations, questions and issues for HPC end-users," said Gilad Shainer, director of technical marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "HPC end-users can benefit from the HPC Advisory Council through reduced procurement cycle and installation time, and availability of pre-tuned applications for better system utilization and faster time to market."

"Building an HPC ecosystem with key industry players on board is critical in order to ensure interoperability, maximize total solution efficiency, and accelerate new technologies and time to market of new HPC products," said Jie Wu, research manager of technical computing at IDC. "Mellanox's HPC Advisory Council outreach is expected to speed up HPC cluster adoption in more sectors of the technical computing, and bring the capabilities of HPC to new markets and products."

"Industry collaboration is a critical step in delivering technology developments that best meet customers' needs," said Scot Schultz, senior strategic alliance manager for HPC, AMD. "Participation in the HPC Advisory Council is a natural fit for AMD, as many of the leading HPC installations worldwide are based on the AMD Opteron processor, and our work with the HPC Advisory Council can help HPC customers and partners continue to deliver superior end-to-end solutions that address the most demanding workloads."

"Appro is proud to join the Mellanox HPC Advisory Council where it provides a premier forum for networking technology leaders to help companies access the right resources to succeed," said Jim Ballew, chief technology officer at Appro. "Appro sees the adoption of InfiniBand supercomputing clusters as an affirmation that HPC is going mainstream."

"Blue Ridge Numerics is excited about the opportunity to join the Mellanox HPC Advisory Council," said Eric Stenner, director of information technology at Blue Ridge Numerics. "Mellanox technology will be an integral part of our development of CFdesign in an InfiniBand-based high-performance computing environment, with the goal of making complex CFD simulations faster and more accessible to a wider group of engineers."

"We are proud to be a member of the HPC Advisory Council, and to share our vast experience and innovative solutions in high performance computing with the HPC community," said Gautam Shah, chief executive officer of Colfax International. "Our world leading clustering solutions have already been placed in the Council Cluster Center to provide the necessary development and benchmarking environment for the council activities and outreach."

"DataDirect Networks is seeing new data storage requirements and choices emerge in the HPC space," said Dave Fellinger, CTO of DataDirect Networks. "For example, many HPC users have deployed our S2A storage systems in clustered environments, designed to handle increasingly complex data patterns and massive amounts of large files. Users will be able to leverage the council's best practices and interoperability testing to better optimize their solutions to achieve the extreme performance, scalability and stability needed for their data-intensive scientific and modeling applications."

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