Maximizing The Compute Power With Mellanox InfiniBand Connectivity Gilad Shainer Wolfram Technology Conference 2006

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 2 A global leader in semiconductor solutions for server and storage connectivity Leading provider of low-latency and high-bandwidth InfiniBand solutions Converges clustering, communications, management and storage onto a single link with Quality of Service Mellanox Technologies SERVERSSTORAGE INFINIBAND ADAPTERS

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 3 Mellanox InfiniBand Off-the-Shelf Storage Commodity Servers High Performance Computing Proprietary Systems $1M+ Expensive to scale Not flexible Clusters One-tenth the cost Affordable to scale Very flexible Industry Megatrend InfiniBand Clusters Up to 40X more performance 1/10 latency Scalable to 10,000s of connections Flexible and easy to manage

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 4 Increased Demand for Compute Power Automotive  $500K per vehicle crash test (GM)  Design cycles reduced from 4 years to 18 months Digital Content Creation  $90M to produce “The Incredibles”  $630M gross income Oil and Gas Exploration  Up to $4B for offshore wells Weather Forecasting  $1M per mile to evacuate the coast

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 5 Mellanox InfiniBand Performance Bavarian Car-To-Car Model1.1 M elements, cycles InfiniBand price/performance advantage increases with cluster size Gigabit Ethernet becomes ineffective with cluster size Lower Is better

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 6 Building High Performances Solution Best price/performance servers  PCI Express servers  Low power multi-core CPUs Best price/performance storage  High performance file system Mellanox InfiniBand  Highest bandwidth, low latency, low CPU overhead  Parallel direct access from compute nodes to storage HP c-Class Blade System 20Gb/s InfiniBand

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 7 Top500 – Industry-wide Clustering Trends List of the 500 most powerful computers  Published twice a year InfiniBand deployments increase 33% from Nov05 to Jun06  The only growing high speed interconnect solution Three Top10 high ranked industry- standard clusters use InfiniBand  #4 NASA, 10K Itanium-2 CPUs, 51.8TFlops (2004)  #6 Sandia National Laboratories, 4500 nodes, 9K CPUs, 38.2TFlops (2005)  #7 Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1300 nodes, 10K CPUs, 38.1TFlops (2006)

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 8 Mellanox Increases The Compute Power Reduces the high CPU processing overhead  Full transport offload, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Allows performance-hungry applications to fully utilize CPU resources  Overlapping I/O communication with CPU computation cycles

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 9 Mellanox Increases The Compute Power Dramatically increases overall compute cluster efficiency  Eliminating memory bandwidth bottleneck (Zero-copy) Ensures I/O resource for multi-core systems  20Gb/s node to node (40Gb/s, 2007) …

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 10 A Unified InfiniBand Fabric World-class performance Simplified Management Ultimate scalability Optimal total cost of ownership

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 11 Mellanox Cluster Center Neptune cluster  32 Node,  Dual core AMD Opteron CPUs Helios cluster  32 node  Dual core Intel Woodcrest CPUs Utilizing “Fat Tree” network architecture (CBB)  Non-blocking switch topology  Non-blocking bandwidth InfiniBand 20Gb/s

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 12 Air Pollution Simulation – The Problem Technological innovations increases our need for energy and materials but also increase air pollutions Worldwide air pollution is responsible for a large number of deaths and cases of respiratory disease  The World Health Organization estimates 4.6 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution Minimizing and managing the production of pollutants is critical to our environment Complex modeling and simulation requires a compute- intensive solution

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 13 Air Pollution Simulation – The Solution Personal supercomputing for scientific research, modeling and simulations High speed, low latency and low CPU overhead InfiniBand interconnect High performance low power multi-core CPUs Powerful Wolfram gridMathematica supercomputing environment for developing solutions Ease-of-use of Windows Compute Cluster Server operating system

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 14 Air Pollution Simulation - Performance Maximum utilization, efficiency and scalability Seconds

Mellanox Technologies - Maximizing The Compute Power 15 Summary Wolfram gridMathematica with the performance of Mellanox InfiniBand Powerful environment for rapidly developing solutions for computationally challenging problems

Q&A Gilad Shainer, “A leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high performance interconnect products”