The name of Mellanox has emerged as one of the authentic names in current scenario for catering the issues related to data delivery system for various cloud based organizations. You will agree that today the online business has become the lifeline of today’s generation and therefore for the smooth operation of the business there is need of strong data storage system that is capable of handling huge data without any complexity. Recently, the group has joined hands with U.S based, Los Alamos National Laboratory for developing the infrastructure that is capable of handing the huge data set of a large organization. Under the joint collaboration of both these groups will make maximum use of Mellanox’s In-Network computing engines for recovering the high-end data used within the laboratory by making use of existing and upcoming applications.
Both the organizations will work under the supervision of Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium located at Ultra Scale Systems Research Centre (USRC) of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The main objective of Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium is to develop high-end ultra-scale computing and networking applications, architectures and applications required for strengthening the infrastructure national industries and security agencies.
It would be interesting to know that the list of Mellanox’s product is not stagnated only to the manufacturing of adapters, switches or cable but also for developing computing software that are helpful in providing a reliable solution to the data storage systems of the large organizations. Recently the group introduced NVMe SNAP, the Network Accelerated Processing software, providing solutions to data storage systems for private cloud, public cloud and large computing organizations. The new technology facilitates the customers to make use of remote server linked with NVMe Flash storage and make its use like a local storage system and enjoy its all efficiencies at an ease.
The use of NVMe SNAP solutions offered by Mellanox not only ends the inefficiency of the local storage system but also at the same understands the increasing need for storage system at the cloud level. The SNAP solutions helps in the quick adoption of NVMe solutions than compared to Fabrics (NVMe-oF) solution used in different data centers thus allowing the integration to any server with the help of any operating system, thus deploying the use of NVMe-oF technique for any application.
The relevance of the products offered by the Mellanox could be realized from the fact that recently Alibaba, one of the leading online and mobile e-commerce group has installed the RDMA 25 Gbps ConnectX network adapters provided by the Mellanox. The use of RDMA adapters from Mellanox offer high transmission of data at a low latency rate.
The RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) technology facilitates access of one memory host to another memory host without making use of operating system and central processing unit, thus boosting the host performance and network efficiency with low latency rate, high bandwidth and low CPU load. The efficiency of RDMA is further enhanced with the help of RoCE which is a standard protocol that facilitates the existing Ethernet infrastructures enjoy the benefits offered by the RDMA.
The ConnectX network adapters offered by the Mellanox are equipped with wide range of RoCE centric accelerations, thus offering superior performance, stability, scalability and smoothness of enjoying substantial cost savings than compared solutions offered by non RDMA adapters.
