Mellanox Accelerates World’s Fastest Supercomputer

 June 20, 2016 | Israeli high-tech firm  Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced that Mellanox interconnect solutions accelerate the world’s fastest supercomputer, at the supercomputing center in Wuxi, China. The new number one supercomputer delivers 93 Petaflops (3 times higher compared to the previous top system), connecting nearly 41 thousand nodes and more than ten million CPU cores. Mellanox’s InfiniBand solutions now accelerate nearly 50 percent of the world Petascale-performance systems on the TOP500 list, 1.6 times more than the closest competitor. Mellanox was founded in 1999 by Eyal Waldman, Shani Cohen and Roni Ashuri and has a current market cap of $1.9 billion.