1. Server and Storage Connectivity Solutions
April 2009

2. Efficient Solutions for Efficient Computing
Enterprise Data Center
High-Performance Computing
Cloud Computing
Leading Connectivity Solution Provider For Servers and Storage
Leading Connectivity Solution Provider For Servers and Storage

3. Leading End-to-End Data Center Products
Adapter ICs & Cards
Switch ICs & Systems
Gateway ICs & Systems
Adapter ICs & Cards
Blade & Rack Servers
Switch
Gateway
Storage
Cables
Cables
Cables
Adapter ICs & Cards
Switch ICs & Systems
InfiniScale® IV
Dual-Port 10/20/40Gb/s InfiniBand, 10GigE with FCoE & Data Center Ethernet
36-port 40Gb/s switch silicon device
36 to 324-port 40Gb/s InfiniBand Switches
Gateway ICs & Systems
Cables
Robust active and passive cables
Supporting data rates up to 40Gb/s
10/20/40G InfiniBand or 10GigE to 10GigE and/or 2/4/8G Fibre Channel Gateway

4. InfiniBand Leadership and Market Expansion
InfiniBand market and performance leader
First to market with 20Gb/s and 40Gb/s adapters and switches
Mature, 4th generation silicon and software
Strong industry adoption of 40Gb/s InfiniBand ~34% of 4Q 2008 revenue
Roadmap to 80Gb/s in 2010
Expansion into high transaction processing and virtualization
Cloud computing, Oracle data base, VMware I/O consolidation
Data distribution, algorithmic trading for financial services
Expansion into commercial HPC
Automotive, Digital media, EDA, Oil & Gas, and simulation

5. 10 Gigabit Ethernet Solutions Leadership
Ethernet Leadership
First to market with dual-port PCIe Gen2 10GigE adapter
First to market with 10GigE w/FCoE with hardware offload
Awarded “Best of Interop” 2008
Industry-wide Acceptance and Certification
Multiple design wins & deployments
Servers, LAN on Motherboard (LOM), and storage systems
VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5
Citrix XenServer 4.1 in-the-box support
Windows Server 2003 & 2008, RedHat 5, SLES 11

6. Maximizing Productivity Since 2001

7. Shanghai Supercomputer Center
China 863 Grid program
Biggest government project in China IT industry
Dawning5000A supercomputer
1920 nodes Dawning blade system, 180.6TFlop, ~80% efficiency
Highest ranked Windows HPC Server 2008 based system
Mellanox ConnectX and switch based systems
Delivering highest scalability for Windows based clusters

8. Roadrunner – The First Petaflop System
Largest supercomputer in the world
Los Alamos Nation Lab, #1 on June 2008 Top500 list
Nearly 3x faster than the leading contenders on Nov 2007 list
Usage - national nuclear weapons, astronomy, human genome science and climate change
Breaking through the “Petaflop barrier"
More than 1,000 trillion operations per second
12,960 CPUs, 3,456 tri-blade units
Mellanox ConnectX 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters
Mellanox InfiniScale III 20Gb/s switches
Mellanox InfiniBand is the only scalable high-performance solution for Petascale computing
Scalability, efficiency, performance

9. Virginia Tech – 40Gb/s InfiniBand QDR System
Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS)
CHECS research activities are the foundation for the development of next generation, power-aware high-end computing resources
Mellanox end-to-end 40Gb/s solution
Mellanox 40Gb/s - the only 40Gbs technology on the Top500 list
324 Apple Mac Pro Servers
Total of 2592 Intel quad-core CPU cores
Energy efficient 22.3TF system
“Unlike most of the clusters I have ever used, we have never had a Linpack run failure with this cluster, not one.”
Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan

10. Mellanox InfiniBand-Accelerated HP Oracle Database Machine
Mellanox 20Gb/s InfiniBand-accelerated rack servers and native InfiniBand EXADATA Storage Servers with Oracle 11g
Solves I/O bottleneck between database servers and storage servers
At least 10X Oracle data warehousing query performance
Faster access to critical business information
“Oracle Exadata outperforms anything we’ve tested to date by 10 to 15 times. This product flat-out screams.”
Walt Litzenberger Director Enterprise Database Systems, CME Group World’s Largest Futures Exchange

11. InfiniBand HCA Silicon and Cards
Performance driven architecture
MPI latency <1us, 6.6GB/s with 40Gb/s InfiniBand (bi-directional)
MPI message rate of >40 Million/sec
Superior real application performance
Scalability, efficiency, productivity
Drive all new InfiniBand designs to ConnectX IB
Superior performance, scalability
Congestion control maximizes effective bandwidth
QoS for guaranteed service levels
Service oriented I/O using dedicated channels
HW-based virtualization for native OS performance
Advanced storage functions for network consolidation
Consider InfiniHost families when Power, Size, Cost or legacy PCI-X are key design considerations
16-cores
8-cores

12. ConnectX Ethernet Benefits
Optimized for cost, power, board space
Single chip with integrated PHYs
Highest bandwidth
2 line-rate 10GigE ports over PCIe2.0
HW-based virtualization
For native OS performance
Better resource utilization
Network convergence
Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Low Latency Ethernet (LLE)
Efficient RDMA
iSCSI acceleration
Through OS-compatible stateless offloads
Line rate from 128B onwards
Drivers for the Redhat and Suse distributions are available on the Mellanox web site.

13. ConnectX Virtual Protocol Interconnect…
App1
App2
App3
App4
AppX
Applications
Consolidated Application Programming Interface
Networking
TCP/IP/UDP
Sockets
Storage
NFS, CIFS, iSCSI NFS-RDMA, SRP, iSER,
Fibre Channel, Clustered
Clustering
MPI, DAPL, RDS, Sockets
Management
SNMP, SMI-S OpenView, Tivoli, BMC, Computer Associates
Protocols
Networking
Clustering
Storage
Virtualization
RDMA
Acceleration Engines
10/20/40 InfiniBand
10GigE
Data Center
Ethernet
LLE
Any Protocol over Any Convergence Fabric 13 13

14. 40Gb/s InfiniBand Switch Systems
Scalable switch architecture
DDR (20Gb/s) and QDR (40Gb/s)
Latency as low as 100ns
Adaptive routing, congestion management, QoS
Multiple subnets, mirroring
MTS3600
1U 36 port QSFP
Up to 2.88Tb/s switching capacity
MTS3610
19U 18 slot chassis
Up to 25.9Tb/s switching capacity
18 QSFP ports per switch blade
MTS3630
648-port chassis
Up to 51.8Tb/s switching capacity
Accelerating QDR Deployment 14

15. BridgeX Enables True IO Unification
Cost-effective bridging
InfiniBand → Ethernet
InfiniBand → Fibre Channel
Ethernet → Fibre Channel
Protocol encapsulation
No termination
Full wire speed, low power
Simplicity, scalability and flexibility

16. Efficient High Performance Solutions
10G Ethernet
40G InfiniBand
8G Fibre Channel
Storage
Bridges
Switches
IB Storage
Servers
Adapters
IB to Eth
IB to FC
Eth to FC
40G InfiniBand, FCoIB
10G Ethernet, FCoE
40Gb/s Network
InfiniBand
Eth over IB
FC over IB
FC over Eth*
Ethernet Storage
FC Storage
* via ecosystem products

17. Coming to the Theaters…
Adaptive routing and static routing
Congestion control
Virtual secured subnets
80Gb/s InfiniBand
MPI offloads
HS   2:10 means 10 links with 2 to 1 oversubscription

18. Enabling Energy Efficiency and Cost Savings
10G Ethernet
40G InfiniBand
8G Fibre Channel
Switches
Adapters
Bridges
Storage
Servers
Virtualization
One Wire
VPI
High-Performance
Complete Scalable I/O Consolidation Solutions
Bottom Line Benefits for IT:
TCO
50%
Reduction
Energy Costs
67%
Reduction
Infrastructure
62%
Saving
* Based on end-users testimonies

19. Energy Efficiency and Increased Productivity
10G Ethernet
40G InfiniBand
8G Fibre Channel
Switches
Adapters
Bridges
Storage
Servers
Virtualization
One Wire
VPI
High-Performance
Complete Scalable I/O Consolidation Solutions
Bottom Line Benefits for IT:
TCO
50%
Reduction
Infrastructure
62%
Saving
Performance
100%
Increase
* Based on end-users testimonies

20. Thank You 20