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Cloud Service Provider Delivers Higher and More Reliable Service Levels Using Mellanox InfiniBand Products

Founded in 2006, ENKI is a provider of managed cloud computing and offers its customers access to its shared cloud infrastructure. ENKI’s customers are typically Software-as-a-Service vendors & start-ups - companies that require a flexible cloud solution to accommodate growing demand for performance as the number of application users grows or as they need more resources for product testing.

By deploying InfiniBand end-to-end, PrimaCloud can support high volume and high-performance requirements, on demand, and offer service that scales as customers’ needs change and grow.

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	Cloud Service Provider Delivers Higher and More Reliable Service Levels Using Mellanox InfiniBand Products Logicworks is a leading provider of highly reliable cloud hosting solutions. The company offers its clients managed cloud services with high service levels in the areas of high availability and increased transaction throughput.By utilizing Mellanox InfiniBand, Logicworks now provides its cloud customers a competitive service offering at a significant lower total cost of ownership compared to cloud services that utilize traditional Ethernet and/or Fibre Channel based network solutions. View PDF (478KB)


	Partners Healthcare Cuts Latency of Cloud-based Storage Solution Using Mellanox’s InfiniBand Technology By integrating InfiniBand into the storage solution, Partners Healthcare was able to reduce latency close to zero and increase its performance, providing their customers with faster response and higher capacity. View PDF (314KB)


	Mellanox InfiniBand Helps Smash SC09 Cluster Challenge for StonyBrook Each year, SC features a Student Cluster Competition where undergraduate student teams compete against each other to perform scientific application benchmark runs on clusters. StonyBrook's student's ingenuity won the day, aided by Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand connecting Dell systems and AMD processors. View PDF (725KB)

Global Shipping Company Chooses InfiniBand to Maximize Data Center Efficiency and Increase Processing Capabilities, while Dramatically Reducing Costs

By implementing a solution based on InfiniBand technology, the customer was able to maximize the efficiency of their data center while significantly increasing their processing capabilities, ensuring greater reliability and scalability.

Due to the reduced number of servers and significantly less number of Oracle 11g RAC licenses, the TCO of the InfiniBand solution has the potential to save the customer approximately $2.6 million in hardware, maintenance, database and energy costs over a period of four years compared to a 10GbE solution.

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	Intalio and Mellanox bring InfiniBand Solutions to Enterprise Cloud Computing Using Mellanox end-to-end InfiniBand solutions, the Intalio\|Cloud Appliance benefits from a unified networking fabric that eliminates the need to deploy and manage multiple and low-performing networking technologies such as Ethernet and Fibre Channel. It reduces networking hardware acquisition costs by up to 50 percent and network management costs by up to 30 percent. View PDF (630KB)


	1st European Petaflop Computer in Jülich, Germany On May 26, 2009, the Research Center Jülich reached a significant milestone of German and European supercomputing with the inauguration of two new supercomputers: the supercomputer JUROPA and the fusion machine HPC-FF. 40Gb/s InfiniBand from Mellanox is used as the system interconnect. View PDF (309KB)


	InfiniBand Technology to Speed up Dawning 5000A High-Performance Computing System Mellanox ConnectX, the leading InfiniBand technology in high-performance computing environments, has been selected as the interconnect of choice for the Dawning 5000A, China‘s fastest supercomputer. ConnectX technology was the best choice because of its ability to meet the most stringent I/O performance and reliability requirements while keeping multi-core CPU overhead and energy requirements to a minimum. View PDF (439KB)


	TELCO Meets Datacenter Growth and Green IT Demands The company sought a new datacenter architecture that would meet its short-term challenges while establishing a reliable, risk-free growth path. Mellanox InfiniBand provided 4X better performance and TCO savings of 90%. View PDF (561KB)


	Virginia Tech Taps 40Gb/s InfiniBand for Research Cluster Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology provides the necessary scalability and performance for the CHECS research activities and will be the foundation for the development of next generation, power-aware high-end computing resources. View PDF (168KB)


	Ecommerce Hosting Provider Drastically Cuts Server Provisioning Costs Using Virtualized InfiniBand-based Solution and VMware The channel I/O interface available in Mellanox InfiniBand adapters enabled dynamic, software-based installation and removal of virtual NICs and HBAs and their associated virtual links, and would deliver the required quality of service needed to carry critical Fibre Channel traffic from the servers to the SAN, resulting in further time and expense savings through I/O consolidation. View PDF (212k)


	Windows® HPC Server 2008 with Mellanox InfiniBand Windows HPC Server 2008 combined with Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect adapters delivers computing performance that addresses the productivity and scalability needs of current and future HPC computing platforms. View PDF (3.3Mb)


	Holland Computer Center When the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) decided to build one of the world’s largest cluster computer systems, it combined InfiniBand interconnect technology with cutting-edge servers, storage, management, and power conditioning systems. The result was a system that easily placed among the 50 most powerful supercomputers in the world in the fall, 2007 Top500 test, and has the scalability to drive far more performance in the near future. View PDF (1.6Mb)