Next Generation Performance and Scalability with Mellanox Smart Interconnect
SessionNetworking
Session ChairJason Zurawski
Event Type
Exhibitor Forum
Architectures
TimeTuesday, November 15th4:30pm - 5pm
Location155-F
DescriptionPushing the frontiers of science and technology will require extreme-scale computing with machines that are 500-to-1000 times more capable than today’s supercomputers. We will discuss the new era of co-design which enables all active system devices to effectively become acceleration devices, including the network. The emerging class of intelligent interconnect devices, such as Mellanox SwitchIB-2 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Switching with SHArP (Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation Protocol) and ConnectX-5 100Gb/s Host Channel Adapters are now enabling in-network co-processing, and a more effective mapping of communication between devices in the system increases system performance by an order of magnitude. We will explore the benefits of the next generation capabilities of these smart-interconnect devices, off-load architecture, and in-network co-processing as we prepare to move toward HDR 200Gb/s and approach the next milestone to exascale computing.
