SUNNYVALE, CA and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL - September 30, 2014 - 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 that the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has selected Mellanox's Ethernet technology for the upgrade and expansion of its JASMIN super-data-cluster. STFC is one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research organizations and hosts the JASMIN system which is used to further research in the atmospheric science and earth observation communities.
Mellanox's end-to-end 10/40/56Gb Ethernet solution which includes ConnectX®-3 Pro adapters, LinkX™ cables, and SwitchX®-2 10/40/56Gb Ethernet switches configured in Virtual Modular Switch™ (VMS) mode provide the JASMIN cluster with non-blocking, high throughput processing at a low cost to enable complex simulations for advanced environmental research. A major upgrade marking Phase 2 of JASMIN is that it now provides an additional 7 Petabytes of disk storage and 3,000 compute cores connected in a non-blocking network topology.
STFC's JASMIN super-data-cluster, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), provides a globally unique computational environment and infrastructure for data analysis. Mellanox's VMS architecture forms the basis of JASMIN's Phase 2 expansion to provide a 1:1 non-blocking ratio. The facility also leverages Mellanox ConnectX®-3 Pro adapters' VXLAN offload support, allowing dynamic allocation of virtual machines in JASMIN Phase 2.
The existing JASMIN Phase 1 network will be enhanced with Mellanox's end-to-end Ethernet interconnect, taking advantage of the high-port densities of Mellanox switches with speeds up to 56Gb/s to provide a non-blocking network in a very small form factor. The upgraded network and VXLAN support on JASMIN will be available in the third quarter of 2014.
"In order to take advantage of the growth in data, and to analyze data faster and in real time, more and more organizations around the world require faster and more efficient interconnect solutions to connect their data centers," said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox. "Mellanox provides the most efficient, high-performance Ethernet switch infrastructure for 10, 40 and 56Gb/s data speeds, enabling JASMIN to deliver the current and future needs of STFC and NERC science."