SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced an open invitation to distinguished high-performance computing (HPC) centers to join a newly formed consortium titled the “HPC Centers of Excellence.” The goal of the HPC Centers of Excellence is to accelerate new uses of intelligent interconnect into areas previously limited by cost, knowledge or imagination, to explore new technologies and enable better research and product development, and to collaborate on Co-Designed architecture and solutions development.
HPC Centers of Excellence member organizations will enjoy the following benefits:
- Early access to the Mellanox roadmap
- Open collaboration with Mellanox and other leaders within the HPC community
- The opportunity to contribute to the development of next-generation solutions and drive toward Exascale computing
“Mellanox is excited to be spearheading this collaborative effort to develop the next-generation of high-performance computing solutions that will ultimately enable us to achieve Exascale,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox. “Computing and storage systems in today’s supercomputers have reached a critical point due to technology limitations and are being pushed to the brink as data sets continue to grow exponentially. These open collaborations between Mellanox and leaders from the HPC community will contribute to the development of the next generation intelligent interconnect solutions overcoming these constraints, continuing critical progress and ensuring we make those next great discoveries in industries like space exploration, pharmaceuticals and meteorology.”
Organizations that have joined the program to date include:
- Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET
- The Australian National University
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ)
- GSI Darmstadt
- Harvard University
- High Performance Computing Center of Shanghai Jiaotong University
- The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
- IT4Innovations national supercomputing center
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Max Planck
- MIT
- Monash University
- NASA
- National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) at the Australia National University
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center
- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego
- Shanghai Supercomputing Center
- Shared Services Canada/ Environment Canada
- Sick Kids Hospital
- Tsinghua University HPC Center
- The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico)
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Warsaw
Other organizations that would like more information about the HPC Centers of Excellence can send inquiries to HPC@Mellanox.com.
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Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at www.mellanox.com.
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