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IBM's Bladecenter H with Mellanox Connectx 20 and 40Gb/S Infiniband IBM’s BladeCenter H with Mellanox® ConnectX® 20 and 40Gb/s InfiniBand Mezzanine Adapter In today’s high-demand enterprise environment, organizations need a reliable infrastructure to run compute-intensive applications with minimal maintenance and downtime. IBM BladeCenter H is a powerful platform built with the enterprise customer in mind, providing industry- leading InfiniBand connectivity performance, and a solid foundation for virtualization. The powerful BladeCenter H with Mellanox ConnectX IBM iDataPlex and ConnectX InfiniBand Mezzanine Adapter Card InfiniBand mezzanine adapters delivers the performance you need to make better informed decisions, and to maximize your investment and and consistent leading-edge I/O bandwidth throughput to enable succeed in a highly competitive market. faster complex analysis for time-critical, business decision making. Cut I/O Power and Cost while Boosting Server Unprecedented I/O Performance, Scalability, Performance and Efficiency Enterprises today require high server-to-server and server-to-storage High-performance computing clusters can range from as few as bandwidth with low latency to fuel their increased reliance on compute two to thousands of servers woven together to deliver the perfor- intensive data warehouse applications such as inventory tracking, data mance demanded by a broad range of applications including those mining, and business intelligence tools. Customers want to quickly in commercial and enterprise markets such as computer-aided harness information that can improve business decisions that drive engineering (CAE), financial services and life sciences – all can take profit and growth, yet as data warehouses grow, and as more types of advantage of high-performance cluster computing. In addition, with enterprise users need the data stored within them to make business- the use of multi-core CPUs, virtualized infrastructures and networked critical decisions, these large databases must cost-effectively scale storage, users are demanding increased efficiency of the entire IT to meet the emerging needs. In addition, use of multi-core CPUs, compute and storage infrastructure. virtualized infrastructures and networked storage are driving the need ConnectX InfiniBand adapters deliver the highest data throughput and for higher I/O performance. I/O consolidation not only reduces upfront lowest latency of any industry-standard PCI Express adapter avail- costs, but also has long term TCO impact. Convergence of networking, able today, and provide I/O consolidation onto a single InfiniBand storage, compute and management connectivity is important for fabric reducing both upfront capital costs and long term TCO. The improved I/O utilization and ease of manageability. Blade servers lack IBM BladeCenter H with ConnectX InfiniBand mezzanine adapters I/O real estate requiring higher bandwidth I/O adapters that can carry provides unprecedented levels of performance and scalability for a all data center traffic types and consume the least power. Efficient clus- multitude of high-performance computing environments and applica- tering requires high bandwidth with low latency I/O to enable higher tions. levels of clustering efficiency. InfiniBand, with its Channel I/O based architecture, enables simulta- Ordering Information neous use and therefore convergence of all four connectivity elements Mellanox Dual-Port ConnectX 20Gb/s InfiniBand Mezzanine Adapter: on the same adapter port. The result is a clean and cost-effective “one IBM Part# 43W4423 wire” data center infrastructure. The IBM BladeCenter with Mellanox Mellanox Dual-Port ConnectX 40Gb/s InfiniBand Mezzanine Adapter: 20 and 40Gb/s InfiniBand mezzanine adapters matches these demands IBM Part# 46M6001 and provides organizations exceptional scalability, efficiency, flexibility, © Copyright 2009. Mellanox Technologies. All rights reserved. 350 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 100, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Mellanox, ConnectX, InfiniBlast, InfiniBridge, InfiniHost, InfiniRISC, InfiniScale, and InfiniPCI are registered trademarks Tel: 408-970-3400 • Fax: 408-970-3403 of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. BridgeX and Virtual Protocol Interconnect are trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All www.mellanox.com other trademarks are property of their respective owners..
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