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Interconnect Your Future Supercomputing Nov 2015

Paving the Road to Exascale

© 2015 Mellanox Technologies 2

The Ever Growing Demand for Higher Performance

2000 2020 2010 2005

“Roadrunner”

1st

2015

Terascale Petascale Exascale

Single-Core to Many-Core SMP to Clusters

Performance Development

Co-Design

HW SW

APP

Hardware Software

Application

The Interconnect is the Enabling Technology


Co-Design Architecture to Enable Exascale Performance

CPU-Centric Co-Design

Limited to Main CPU Usage Results in Performance Limitation

Creating Synergies Enables Higher Performance and Scale

Software Software

In-CPU Computing

In-Network Computing

In-Storage Computing


The Intelligence is Moving to the Interconnect

CPU

Interconnect

Past Future


Co-Design Architecture Depends on Offloading Technologies

Programmability

RDMA GPUDirect Virtualization

Backward and Future Compatibility

Direct Communications

Applications (Innovations, Scalability, Performance)

Software-Defined Network (SDN)

Co-Design Requires Intelligent Interconnect

Offloading Technologies: Intelligent Interconnect


Breaking the Application Latency Wall

§ Today: Network device latencies are on the order of 100 nanoseconds

§ Challenge: Enabling the next order of magnitude improvement in application performance

§ Solution: Creating synergies between software and hardware – intelligent interconnect

Intelligent Interconnect Paves the Road to Exascale Performance

10 years ago

~10 microsecond

~100 microsecond

Network Communication Framework

Today

~10 microsecond

Communication Framework

~0.1 microsecond

Network

~1 microsecond

Communication Framework

Future

~0.05 microsecond

Co-Design Network


Introducing Switch-IB 2 World’s First Smart Switch


Introducing Switch-IB 2 World’s First Smart Switch

§ The world fastest switch with <90 nanosecond latency

§ 36-ports, 100Gb/s per port, 7.2Tb/s throughput, 7.02 Billion messages/sec

§ Adaptive Routing, Congestion control, support for multiple topologies

World’s First Smart Switch

Build for Scalable Compute and Storage Infrastructures

10X Higher Performance with The New Switch SHArP Technology


SHArP (Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation Protocol) Technology

Delivering 10X Performance Improvement

for MPI and SHMEM/PAGS Applications

Switch-IB 2 Enables the Switch Network to

Operate as a Co-Processor

SHArP Enables Switch-IB 2 to Manage and

Execute MPI Operations in the Network


The Intelligence is Moving to the Interconnect

Communication Frameworks (MPI, SHMEM/PGAS)

The Only Approach to Deliver 10X Performance Improvements

Applications Transport RDMA SR-IOV

Collectives Peer-Direct GPUDirect

More…

MPI / SHMEM Offloads


High-Performance Designed 100Gb/s Interconnect Solutions

Transceivers

Active Optical and Copper Cables

(10 / 25 / 40 / 50 / 56 / 100Gb/s) VCSELs, Silicon Photonics and Copper

36 EDR (100Gb/s) Ports, <90ns Latency

Throughput of 7.2Tb/s

7.02 Billion msg/sec (195M msg/sec/port)

100Gb/s Adapter, 0.7us latency

150 million messages per second

(10 / 25 / 40 / 50 / 56 / 100Gb/s)

32 100GbE Ports, 64 25/50GbE Ports

(10 / 25 / 40 / 50 / 100GbE)

Throughput of 6.4Tb/s


Intelligent Interconnect Delivers Higher Datacenter ROI

Users

NETWORK

COMPUTING

NETWORK

Users

Intelligence

Network Offloads Computing for applications

Smart Network Increase Datacenter Value

Network functions On CPU

COMPUTING


Mellanox InfiniBand Proven and Most Scalable HPC Interconnect

“Summit” System “Sierra” System

Paving the Road to Exascale


Technology Roadmap – One-Generation Lead over the Competition

2000 2020 2010 2005

“Roadrunner” Mellanox Connected

1st 3rd TOP500 2003

Virginia Tech (Apple)

2015

Terascale Petascale Exascale

10G 20G 40G 56G 100G 200G 400G

TrueScale

No-Offload Network

40G (InfiniBand)

Same PathScale Technology

Under Intel Logo

InfiniPath

No-Offload Network

20G (InfiniBand)

OmniPath

No-Offload Network

100G (Proprietary)

Same PathScale Technology

Under QLogic Logo


Mellanox InfiniBand Solutions Deliver Highest ROI for Any Scale

100 Gb/s Link Speed Higher Performance

Unlimited Scalability Higher Resiliency

Proven!

Smart Network For Smart Systems RDMA, Acceleration Engines, Programmability 200

Gb/s Link Speed

2014

Gain Competitive Advantage Today, Protect Your Future

1 Mellanox Estimations

25% Lower

20% Lower

Scalability CPU efficiency1

Power Consumption Per Switch Port

Switch Latency

2X Higher

Message Rate

44% Higher

2017


Mellanox Delivers Best Interconnect

§  100Gb/s throughput at 0% CPU utilization

§  Adapter: 150 Million messages/sec on today’s systems, 44% higher

§  Switch: 7.02 Billion messages/sec (195 Million per port)

§  20% lower switch latency, with deterministic latency!

Higher Performance

Lower TCO

Higher Reliability

§  25% lower power consumption per switch port

§  Standard-based solutions, large eco-system support

§  Backward and future compatibility – protect investments

§  Offloading Architecture (RDMA, GPUDirect etc.) delivers highest system efficiency

§  1,000X higher reliability - Mellanox delivers Bit Error Rate of 10-15 versus 10-12

§  Superior signal integrity

§  Support for Multiple data integrity mechanisms (FEC1, LLR2, COD3 and more)

1- Forward Error Correction; 2 – Link Level Retransmission; 3- Correction on Demand


End-to-End Interconnect Solutions for All Platforms

Highest Performance and Scalability for

X86, Power, GPU, ARM and FPGA-based Compute and Storage Platforms

10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 56 and 100Gb/s Speeds

X86 Open POWER GPU ARM FPGA

Smart Interconnect to Unleash The Power of All Compute Architectures


Mellanox Solutions Interconnect Your Future

The Interconnect is The Competitive Advantage

Mellanox Interconnect

Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Proven

Speed-Up Your Present, Protect Your Future Paving The Road to Exascale Computing Together

Thank You