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DATACENTRES
Mellanox and Dell Technologies
partnership will help move HPC
and AI tech forward
M
ellanox Technologies, a leading
supplier of high-performance,
end-to-end smart interconnect
solutions for data centre servers and storage
systems, has announced a partnership with
Dell Technologies to continue moving the
arenas of high-performance computing
(HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
technologies forward. Mellanox solutions
are distributed in Africa by value-added
distributor, Networks Unlimited Africa.
With the introduction of the Extreme-
Scale High-Performance Computing Program
by the two companies, supercomputing
platforms will be allowed to perform at the
highest levels of performance and efficiency.
Marcel Fouché, Networking and Storage General
Manager at Networks Unlimited Africa
Marcel Fouché, Networking and Storage
General Manager at Networks Unlimited
Africa, said: “Mellanox solutions increase
data centre efficiency by providing high
throughput and low latency, in this way
delivering data faster to applications and
unlocking system performance. This enables
supercomputing machines to help drive
new research and innovations through its
processing speed and computing power.”
The Extreme-Scale High-Performance
Computing Program will promote and
enhance the following:
Supercomputing platforms: This brings
together Mellanox’ 200 gigabit HDR
InfiniBand ConnectX-6 smart adapters,
Mellanox HDR InfiniBand Quantum switches
and LinkX cables and transceivers with
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to form
scalable, high-performance supercomputing
platforms. This will enable commercial
companies, government agencies, and
universities to achieve a high-performance
compute infrastructure at any size, and
to scale them as needed to meet their
application demands over time.
Comprehensive software suite and
optimisation: Mellanox’ leading software
packages for HPC and AI applications,
network management and monitoring provide
end-users with the software and tools needed
to optimise their data centre performance,
efficiency, and scalability, and to simplify the
data centre management and operations.
“Mellanox technology reduces the
application wait-time for data,” added
Fouché. “High performance computing brings
competitiveness and drives down the costs
of bringing an idea to market, for example by
allowing for virtual prototypes to be created
instead of physical.
“In addition, high performance
computing enables scientific, commercial
and industrial research across industry,
university and national levels. This
collaboration between Mellanox and Dell
truly signals a step forward in the work
that is being done on the next generation of
super-computing machines.” •
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