Mellanox InfiniBand Drives Transaction Processing and Storage Performance Benchmark on HP BladeSystem c-Class

Business Wire, Sept 19, 2007

Industry's First-Ever "All Bladed" Server and Storage Benchmark Configuration Delivers Best Price/Performance While Reducing Floor Space, Power, Cooling and TCO

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel -- Mellanox[TM] Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX)(TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced that the Company's 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and switch products provided the foundation for the HP BladeSystem c-Class world record clustered TPC-H benchmark(a), delivering 39,613 QphH (Query-per-hour Performance Metric)@ $12.57/ QphH @300GB. HP server blades are used for both the Oracle 10g RAC database servers, as well as the storage servers in a dense form factor which also includes the storage disks. Each server uses Mellanox's high-throughput, low-latency 20Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect for server-to-server and server-to-storage I/O connectivity to deliver the best price/performance.

"This 'all-bladed' world record TPC-H benchmark expands the market potential for our converged InfiniBand products by providing both computing and storage server interconnect in the fast growing blade market, which is expected to ship over three million units in 2010," said Eyal Waldman, chairman, president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. "We're delighted to see HP BladeSystem c-Class systems using our InfiniBand products for enterprise database applications as they provide outstanding price/performance while addressing significant data center issues such as time, change, cost and energy."

Three HP BladeSystem c7000 blade enclosures house the servers and InfiniBand I/O components as well as SAS storage disks, which take up less than 75 percent of a standard 42U rack. This configuration requires only 20 percent of the floor space and 30 percent of the power and cooling costs compared to traditional rack servers and storage SAN solutions.

"HP is leading the industry by providing a 20Gb/s InfiniBand unified fabric in the HP BladeSystem c7000 as the cluster interconnect for Oracle RAC deployments, adding additional utility to the HP StorageWorks SB40c storage blade," said Mark Potter, vice president, BladeSystem Division, HP. "In addition to the record performance of this TPC-H data warehouse application, HP has integrated the storage subsystem within the c7000, which significantly reduces the cost and power utilization compared to typical rack systems."

About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high-performance, InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity products that facilitate data transmission between servers, communications infrastructure equipment and storage systems. The company's products are an integral part of a total solution focused on computing, storage and communication applications used in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded systems.

Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and Yokneam, Israel. For more information, visit Mellanox at www.mellanox.com.

(a) HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL460c IB Cluster 16P DC 39,613 QphH @ $12.57/ QphH @300GB - Available 9/15/2007 - The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. A full description of the hardware and software configuration is located on the TPC website: http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=107080901.

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