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InfiniBand addresses the challenges IT infrastructures face as more demands are placed on the interconnect with ever-increasing demands for computing and storage resources. Specifically, InfiniBand has the following advantages:

Superior performance.

InfiniBand provides superior latency performance and products supporting 20Gb/s node-to-node and 60Gb/s switch-to-switch connections. In addition, InfiniBand has a defined roadmap to 120Gb/s – the fastest support specification of any industry-standard interconnect.

Reduced complexity.

InfiniBand allows for the consolidation of multiple I/Os on a single cable or backplane interconnect, which is critical for blade servers, data center compute and storage clusters and embedded systems. InfiniBand also consolidates the transmission of clustering, communications, storage and management data types over a single connection. The consolidation of I/O onto a unified InfiniBand fabric significantly lowers the overall power and real estate required for server and storage clusters. Other interconnect technologies are not well suited to be unified fabrics because their fundamental architectures are not designed to support multiple traffic types.

Highest interconnect efficiency.

InfiniBand was developed to provide efficient scalability of multiple systems. InfiniBand provides communication processing functions in hardware – relieving the CPU of this task – and enables the full resource utilization of each node added to the cluster. In addition, InfiniBand incorporates Remote Direct Memory Access which is an optimized data transfer protocol that further enables the server processor to focus on application processing. This contributes to optimal application processing performance in server and storage clustered environments.

Mellanox HCA SDR

Single data rate (SDR) InfiniHost III Ex cards support dual 10Gb/s InfiniBand connections based on PCI-e x8. InfiniHost III Ex HCA cards deliver the most cost effective 10 Gb/s solution available and feature remote direct memory access (RDMA), hardware transport, and advanced per queue pair (QP) QoS services.

InfiniHost cards support single and dual 10Gb/s InfiniBand connections based on PCI-x

Mellanox HCA DDR

InfiniHost III 4X InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) cards connect to the host system through a PCI Express interface. Double data rate (DDR) version supports 20Gb/s InfiniBand connections. InfiniHost III Lx and Ex HCA cards deliver the most cost effective 10 or 20Gb/s solution available and feature remote direct memory access (RDMA), hardware transport, and advanced per queue pair (QP) QoS services.

Mellanox HCA QDR

ConnectX adapter cards provide the highest performing and most flexible interconnect solution for Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. Clustered data bases, parallelized applications, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation.

Servers supporting PCI Express 2.0 with 5GT/s will be able to take advantage of 40Gb/s InfiniBand, balancing the I/O requirement of these high-end servers.

InfiniBand Mezzanine Card

InfiniBand host channel adapter (HCA) cards deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth for performance driven server and storage clustering applications in enterprise data centers, high performance computing, and embedded environments.

Mellanox SDR/DDR Switches

All Melrow Infiniband Switches support non-blocking switching performance running at wire-speed with ultra-low latencies.

The 1U DDR switches are optimized for building flexible,scalable, robust and reliable InfiniBand fabrics for the server, storage, embedded, enterprisedata center and high performance computing (HPC) markets. We can offer to 288 ports in one switch unit

Mellanox QDR Switches

For the QDR we offer the 36 Ports 1U Switch from Mellanox provide the highest-performing
fabric solution by delivering high-bandwidth and low-latency
to Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing and Embedded environments.

Also an modular 18 to 324 ports switch is available.

BridgeX Mellanox

Melrow offers new BridgeX Gateway systems.

The BX4000 is the first Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) gateway allowing data centers to deploy I/O consolidation solutions using InfiniBand or Ethernet as the convergence fabric of choise.

QLogic HCA

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance clustering and storage networking solutions, which include the host adapters and InfiniBand switches that are used by major corporations and government facilities The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the fast growing high performance computing market.

QLogic IB Switches

	InfiniBand Switches
	QLogic offers the most comprehensive and flexible interconnect fabric solutions on the market. This offering, combined with the industry's only Fabric Management tools that enable an administrator to install and boot a fabric in minutes, helps to satisfy the growing demand for high-performance computational clusters and grids.