mellanox technologies maximize cluster performance and...

Gilad Shainer, shainer@mellanox.comOctober, 2007

Mellanox TechnologiesMaximize Cluster Performance and Productivity

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Enterprise Data CentersEnterprise Data Centers

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Mellanox TechnologiesApplicationsHardware OEMs End-Users

HighHigh--Performance ComputingPerformance Computing

InfiniBand and Ethernet

ServersAnd Blades

Embedded

Switches

Storage

Interconnect: A Competitive Advantage

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Connecting The Most Powerful Clusters

4500 server nodes

1300 servernodes

1280 server nodes

2300 server nodes

1400 server nodes

96 server nodes

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Time to Compute 10 Time Steps

But Not Only The Most Powerful ClustersSikorsky CH-53K program• 24 nodes, dual core CPUs• Reducing simulations

duration from 4 days to several hours

Personal supercomputing (4-5 nodes)• Wolfram Air Pollution Simulation • Maximum utilization and efficiency

Seconds

HP

TYAN

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Clusters• Commodity• Very flexible

InfiniBand Clusters• Maximum performance• Scalability, large-scale clusters• Multiple I/O traffics• Flexible and easy to manage

Proprietary Systems• Expensive• Not flexible

MellanoxInfiniBand

Off-the-ShelfStorage

CommodityServers

InfiniBand For Clustering

IndustryMegatrend

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InfiniBand For I/O Growth Demands

Multi-core CPUs mandating 10Gb/s+ connectivity

More applications per More applications per server and I/Oserver and I/O

More traffic per I/O More traffic per I/O with server I/O with server I/O consolidationconsolidation

I/O capacity per server I/O capacity per server dictated by the most dictated by the most

demanding appsdemanding apps

10Gb/s+ 10Gb/s+ connectivity connectivity

for each for each serverserver

Multi Core CPUs

SAN Adoption

SharedResources

More applicationsMore applicationsdemand realdemand real--time time

responseresponse

LatencyRace

More applications per More applications per server and I/Oserver and I/O

More traffic per I/O More traffic per I/O with server I/O with server I/O consolidationconsolidation

I/O capacity per server I/O capacity per server dictated by the most dictated by the most

demanding appsdemanding apps

10Gb/s+ 10Gb/s+ connectivity connectivity

for each for each serverserver

Multi Core CPUs

SAN Adoption

SharedResources

More applicationsMore applicationsdemand realdemand real--time time

responseresponse

LatencyRace

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InfiniBand For Virtualization

Hardware-based I/O virtualization • Multiple VMs, multiple traffic types per VM

Supports current and future servers• AMD and Intel IOV, PCI-SIG IOV

Better resource utilization• Frees up CPU through hypervisor offload• Enable significantly more VMs per CPU

Native OS performance• VMs enjoy native InfiniBand performance

ConnectX InfiniBand HCA

VirtualMachine 1

HCA Driver

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DMA Remapping

Memory

VirtualMachine 1

HCA Driver

VirtualMachine 1

HCA Driver

Physical Server

Virtual Machine Monitor

VMM OffloadFunctions

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TOP500 Interconnect Trends

Explosive growth of InfiniBand 20Gb/s• 55 clusters = 42% of the InfiniBand clusters

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InfiniBand adoption is faster then Ethernet

InfiniBand In The Top500

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InfiniBand: +230%GigE: -19%

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InfiniBand Value Proposition

Automotive Oil and Gas Fluid Dynamics

* Partial List

3X simulation efficiency increaseCar crash simulations eliminates the need for physical testing

Reduce reservoir modeling simulation runtime up to 55%Improves interpretation and modeling accuracy

3X performance improvement and near linear scalingIntensive simulation for computer-aided engineering

5X the bandwidth for real-time color gradingHigh-resolution commercials and feature films

4X improvement for photomaskmanufacturing - CATS

Monte Carlo simulation, astronomy, bioinformatics, chemistry and drug researchAccelerate parallel execution of matrix operations

Oil and GasAutomotive Fluid Dynamics

Electronic Design AutomationDigital Media Computational Science

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Mellanox Product Roadmap

2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 20072001 2002

40Gb/s Total

160Gb/s Total

Two 10Gb/s

480, 960Gb/s Total

Two 10/20Gb/s IB

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*Adapter Card Products Based on Adapter Silicon Not Shown

2.0 AdapterTwo 10/20/40 Gb/s InfiniBand or Two 1/10Gb/s Ethernet

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Leading InfiniBand and 10GigE Adapters

Single-chip server and storage adapters• Optimized cost, power, footprint, reliability

Highest performing InfiniBand adapters• 20Gb/s (40Gb/s in 2008), 1us application latency

Highest performing 10GigE NICs• 17.6Gb/s throughput, < 7us application latency• Supports OpenFabrics RDMA software stacks

Multi-core CPU optimizedVirtualization accelerationCombination IB/Ethernet 4Q07First adapters to support PCI Express 2.0 10 & 20Gb/s InfiniBand

10 Gigabit Ethernet(Copper)

ConnectX IB InfiniBand HCA

ConnectX EN Ethernet MAC/NIC

ConnectX MP Multi-Protocol Adapter

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ConnectX Multi Core PerformanceConnectX MPI Latency - Multi-core Scaling

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InfiniBand scalability - car2car

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HP C-Class Blade System with Mellanox 20Gb/s InfiniBand I/O

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Superior Application Performance

Mellanox InfiniBand versus QLogic InfiniPath - neon_refined_revised

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Time to Compute 10 Time Steps

Systems: Intel Woodcrest 3.0GHz Interconnects: Mellanox InfiniBand SDR, QLogic InfiniPath

Mellanox InfiniBand – full CPU offload• Transport offload• RDMA• Robustness• Scalability• Efficiency

CPU runs application, not network

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Mellanox Cluster Center

http://www.mellanox.com/applications/clustercenter.php

Neptune cluster • 32 nodes • Dual core AMD Opteron CPUs

Helios cluster • 32 nodes• Quad core Intel Clovertown CPUs

Vulcan cluster – coming soon• 32 nodes• Quad core AMD Barcelona CPUs

Utilizing “Fat Tree” network architecture (CBB)• Non-blocking switch topology • Non-blocking bandwidth

ConnectX InfiniBand 20Gb/sInfiniBand based storage

• InfiniBand storage• NFS over RDMA, SRP

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SummaryMarket-wide adoption of InfiniBand • Servers/blades, storage and switch systems• Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, Embedded• Performance, Price, Power, Reliable, Efficient, Scalable

4th Generation adapter - connectivity to InfiniBand and Ethernet• Market leading performance, capabilities and flexibility

Driving key trends in the market• Clustering/blades, low-latency, I/O consolidation, multi-core, virtualization

Fibre Channel Storage

iSCSI StorageConverged Architecture with ConnectX – I/O Consolidation

InfiniBand Storage

InfiniBand orEthernet

Low Cost Bridge

InfiniBand orEthernet

Thank You

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