confidential server and storage connectivity solutions april 2009

CONFIDENTIAL

Server and StorageConnectivity Solutions

April 2009

© 2009 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - 2

Efficient Solutions for Efficient Computing

Cloud Computing

Enterprise Data CenterHigh-Performance

Computing

Leading Connectivity Solution Provider For Servers and StorageLeading Connectivity Solution Provider For Servers and Storage


Leading End-to-End Data Center Products

• Dual-Port 10/20/40Gb/s InfiniBand, 10GigE with FCoE & Data Center Ethernet

• 36-port 40Gb/s switch silicon device• 36 to 324-port 40Gb/s InfiniBand Switches

InfiniScale® IV

Adapter ICs & Cards Switch ICs & Systems

Cables

Blade & Rack Servers StorageSwitch

Cables

Gateway

Cables

• 10/20/40G InfiniBand or 10GigE to 10GigE and/or 2/4/8G Fibre Channel Gateway

Gateway ICs & Systems Cables

• Robust active and passive cables• Supporting data rates up to 40Gb/s

Switch ICs & SystemsAdapter ICs & Cards Adapter ICs & CardsGateway ICs & Systems


InfiniBand Leadership and Market Expansion

InfiniBand market and performance leader• First to market with 20Gb/s and 40Gb/s adapters and switches– Mature, 4th generation silicon and software

• Strong industry adoption of 40Gb/s InfiniBand ~34% of 4Q 2008 revenue

• Roadmap to 80Gb/s in 2010

Expansion into high transaction processing and virtualization• Cloud computing, Oracle data base, VMware I/O consolidation• Data distribution, algorithmic trading for financial services

Expansion into commercial HPC• Automotive, Digital media, EDA, Oil & Gas, and simulation


10 Gigabit Ethernet Solutions Leadership

Ethernet Leadership• First to market with dual-port PCIe Gen2 10GigE adapter• First to market with 10GigE w/FCoE with hardware offload–Awarded “Best of Interop” 2008

Industry-wide Acceptance and Certification• Multiple design wins & deployments– Servers, LAN on Motherboard (LOM), and storage systems

• VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 • Citrix XenServer 4.1 in-the-box support• Windows Server 2003 & 2008, RedHat 5, SLES 11


Maximizing Productivity Since 2001


China 863 Grid program• Biggest government project in China IT industry

Dawning5000A supercomputer• 1920 nodes Dawning blade system, 180.6TFlop, ~80% efficiency

Highest ranked Windows HPC Server 2008 based system Mellanox ConnectX and switch based systems

• Delivering highest scalability for Windows based clusters

Shanghai Supercomputer Center


Largest supercomputer in the world• Los Alamos Nation Lab, #1 on June 2008 Top500 list

– Nearly 3x faster than the leading contenders on Nov 2007 list

• Usage - national nuclear weapons, astronomy, human genome science and climate change

Breaking through the “Petaflop barrier" • More than 1,000 trillion operations per second• 12,960 CPUs, 3,456 tri-blade units• Mellanox ConnectX 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters• Mellanox InfiniScale III 20Gb/s switches

Mellanox InfiniBand is the only scalable high-performance solution for Petascale computing• Scalability, efficiency, performance

Roadrunner – The First Petaflop System


Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS)• CHECS research activities are the foundation for the development of

next generation, power-aware high-end computing resources

Mellanox end-to-end 40Gb/s solution • Mellanox 40Gb/s - the only 40Gbs technology on the Top500 list

324 Apple Mac Pro Servers• Total of 2592 Intel quad-core CPU cores

Energy efficient 22.3TF system

“Unlike most of the clusters I have ever used, we have never had a Linpack run failure with this cluster, not one.”

Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan

Virginia Tech – 40Gb/s InfiniBand QDR System


Mellanox InfiniBand-AcceleratedHP Oracle Database Machine

Mellanox 20Gb/s InfiniBand-accelerated rack servers and native InfiniBand EXADATA Storage Servers with Oracle 11g • Solves I/O bottleneck between database servers

and storage servers At least 10X Oracle data warehousing query

performance• Faster access to critical business information

“Oracle Exadata outperforms anything we’ve tested to date by 10 to 15 times. This product flat-out screams.”

Walt LitzenbergerDirector Enterprise Database Systems, CME Group

World’s Largest Futures Exchange


InfiniBand HCA Silicon and Cards

Performance driven architecture • MPI latency <1us, 6.6GB/s with 40Gb/s InfiniBand (bi-directional)

• MPI message rate of >40 Million/sec

Superior real application performance• Scalability, efficiency, productivity

Mellanox ConnectX MPI Latency - Multi-core Scaling

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ConnectX Ethernet Benefits

Optimized for cost, power, board space

• Single chip with integrated PHYs

Highest bandwidth

• 2 line-rate 10GigE ports over PCIe2.0

HW-based virtualization

• For native OS performance

• Better resource utilization

Network convergence

• Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)

• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

• Low Latency Ethernet (LLE)

• Efficient RDMA

• iSCSI acceleration

– Through OS-compatible stateless offloads

SLES 10 / iPERF / 8 Cores / 3.2GHz / PCIe Gen2

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ConnectX Virtual Protocol Interconnect

StorageNFS, CIFS, iSCSI

NFS-RDMA, SRP, iSER,Fibre Channel, Clustered

NetworkingTCP/IP/UDP

Sockets

ClusteringMPI, DAPL, RDS, Sockets

ManagementSNMP, SMI-S

OpenView, Tivoli, BMC, Computer Associates

LLE

Consolidated Application Programming Interface

App1 App2 App3 App4 AppX…

Acceleration Engines

10GigE Data CenterEthernet

Any Protocol over Any Convergence Fabric

Protocols

Applications

Networking VirtualizationClustering Storage RDMA

10/20/40 InfiniBand


40Gb/s InfiniBand Switch Systems

Scalable switch architecture• DDR (20Gb/s) and QDR (40Gb/s)• Latency as low as 100ns• Adaptive routing, congestion management, QoS• Multiple subnets, mirroring

MTS3600• 1U 36 port QSFP• Up to 2.88Tb/s switching capacity

MTS3610• 19U 18 slot chassis• Up to 25.9Tb/s switching capacity• 18 QSFP ports per switch blade

MTS3630• 648-port chassis• Up to 51.8Tb/s switching capacity

Accelerating QDR Deployment


BridgeX Enables True IO Unification

Cost-effective bridging

• InfiniBand → Ethernet

• InfiniBand → Fibre Channel

• Ethernet → Fibre Channel

Protocol encapsulation

• No termination

Full wire speed, low power

Simplicity, scalability and flexibility


Efficient High Performance Solutions

40Gb/s Network InfiniBand Eth over IB FC over IB FC over Eth*

SwitchesBridges

Storage

ServersAdapters

Ethernet Storage

FC Storage

IB Storage

40G InfiniBand, FCoIB10G Ethernet, FCoE

IB to EthIB to FCEth to FC

* via ecosystem products

40G InfiniBand 10G Ethernet 8G Fibre Channel


Coming to the Theaters…

Adaptive routing and static routing Congestion control Virtual secured subnets 80Gb/s InfiniBand MPI offloads

HS 2:10 means 10 links with 2 to 1 oversubscription


Enabling Energy Efficiency and Cost Savings

TCO

50%

Reduction

Energy Costs

67%

Reduction

Infrastructure

62%

Saving

SwitchesBridges

StorageServers

Adapters

Virtualization One Wire VPI High-Performance

Bottom Line Benefits for IT:

* Based on end-users testimonies


Complete Scalable I/O Consolidation Solutions


Energy Efficiency and Increased Productivity

TCO

50%

Reduction

Performance

100%

Increase

Infrastructure

62%

Saving

SwitchesBridges

StorageServers

Adapters

Virtualization One Wire VPI High-Performance

Bottom Line Benefits for IT:

* Based on end-users testimonies


Complete Scalable I/O Consolidation Solutions

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