Mellanox Provides Storage Networking for Cambridge University HPC Cloud

Mellanox Technologies has announced that its end-to-end 40Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity products, including ConnectX-2 adapter cards, BridgeX gateway system, 40Gb/s InfiniBand switches and cables, provide the high-performance server and storage networking for the new Dell | Cambridge High-Performance Computing Solution Centre. According to this Business Wire news release, the university HPC cluster provides on-demand access to support over 400 internal users spread across 70 research groups.

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"'The Solutions Centre provides accessible research computing services and technology to academic or private sector organizations that would otherwise not have the money or expertise,' said Dr. Paul Calleja, Director HPC Service, University of Cambridge. 'Incorporating Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand, with its GPU efficiency and offloading capabilities, as the clustering backbone of the Solutions Centre was essential to our cloud provision requirements and provides our research community with leading application performance to enhance and accelerate the wide-range of their research.'"

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