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New Mellanox ConnectX IB Adapters Unleash Multi-core Processor Performance

Business Wire, March 26, 2007

In addition, the volume of transactions and data transferred in Fortune 500 companies is increasing exponentially, jeopardizing profits and competitiveness for IT infrastructures that cannot scale to address the additional load.

"Extremely high volumes of concurrent users and increasingly complex transactions are making access to data one of the greatest bottlenecks to performance in grid computing," said Geva Perry, chief marketing officer at GigaSpaces. "ConnectX IB InfiniBand HCAs offer leading latency, throughput and reliable performance that can help eliminate interconnect-related data latency degradations and is therefore a perfect complement to GigaSpaces' products for increasing overall application performance and scalability."

Enhanced Virtual Infrastructure Performance and ROI

ConnectX IB InfiniBand HCAs offer Channel I/O Virtualization (CIOV), which creates virtualized services end-points for virtual machines and SOA deployments. CIOV enables virtualized provisioning of all I/O services including clustering, communications, storage and management. CIOV enables accelerated hardware-based I/O virtualization and is complementary to CPU and memory virtualization technologies from Intel and AMD.

"When used with the Xen virtualization technology inside of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, ConnectX IB InfiniBand adapters can lower I/O costs and improve I/O utilization," said Holger Dyroff, vice president of SUSE Linux Enterprise product management at Novell. "Service-oriented architectures demand native I/O performance from virtual machines and Mellanox's I/O virtualization architecture perfectly complements Novell's technical leadership in delivering mission-critical operating systems to our customers."

Software Compatibility

ConnectX IB InfiniBand HCAs deliver leading performance while maintaining compatibility with operating systems and networking software stacks. For high-performance remote direct memory access (RDMA) based operations, the adapters are fully backward compatible to the OpenFabrics (www.openfabrics.org) Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and Microsoft WHQL-certified Windows InfiniBand (WinIB) protocol stacks, requiring only a device driver upgrade. RDMA and InfiniBand hardware transport offload is proven to deliver software-transparent, application performance improvements. For traditional TCP/IP-based applications, the adapters support standard operating system stacks, including stateless-offload and Intel QuickData technology enhancements.

"PCI Express and Intel QuickData technology provide a low disruption path to scaling I/O by respectively increasing bandwidth and efficiencies for I/O in Intel-based servers," said Jim Pappas, Director of Technology Initiatives for Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. "With innovative implementation of these technologies by companies like Mellanox, I/O on Intel's enterprise platforms continues to be accelerated for the demanding multi-core application needs of today and the future."

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