1. Mellanox Connectivity Solutions for Scalable HPC Highest Performing, Most Efficient End-to-End Connectivity for Servers and Storage April 2010

2. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - 2 Connectivity Solutions for Efficient Computing Leading Connectivity Solution Provider For Servers and Storage Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of high-performance connectivity solutions for servers & storage End-to-End Ifniniband solutions 10 GbE and Low Latency Ethernet NIC solutions

3. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Cluster Software Management HPC Application Accelerations Networking Efficiency/Scalability Servers and Storage High Speed Connectivity Complete End-to-End Highest Performance Solution 3 ICs Switches/GatewayAdaptersCables CORE-Direct GPU-Direct QoS Congestion Control Adaptive Routing

4. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Mellanox’s InfiniBand Leadership Highest Performance Efficient, Scalable and Flexible Networking Converged Network Efficient use of CPUs and GPUs CORE-Direct GPU-Direct Highest Throughput Lowest Latency CPU Availability Virtual Protocol Auto Sensing Host Hardware Bridging Message Rate Transport Offload Adaptive Routing Congestion Control Multiple Topologies Advanced QoS

5. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - ConnectX-2 Virtual Protocol Interconnect Storage NFS, CIFS, iSCSI NFS-RDMA, SRP, iSER, Fibre Channel, Clustered Networking TCP/IP/UDP Sockets Clustering MPI, DAPL, RDS, Sockets Management SNMP, SMI-S OpenView, Tivoli, BMC, Computer Associates LLE Consolidated Application Programming Interface App1App2App3App4AppX … Acceleration Engines 10GigE Any Protocol over Any Convergence Fabric Protocols Applications NetworkingVirtualizationClusteringStorageRDMA 10/20/40 InfiniBand

6. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Efficient Data Center Solutions 40Gb/s Network InfiniBand Eth over IB FC over IB FC over Eth* Switches Bridge Storage Servers Adapters Ethernet Storage FC Storage IB Storage 40G InfiniBand, FCoIB 10G Ethernet, FCoE IB to Eth IB to FC Eth to FC * via ecosystem products 40G InfiniBand 10G Ethernet 8G Fibre Channel

7. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Highest Performance  Highest throughput 40Gb/s node to node and 120Gb/s switch to switch Up to 50M MPI messages per second  Lowest latency 1usec MPI end-to-end 0.9us InfiniBand latency for RDMA operations 100ns switch latency at 100% load True zero scalable latency – flat latency up to 256 cores per node 7

8. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Efficient use of CPUs and GPUs  GPU-direct Works with existing NVIDIA Tesla and Fermi products Enables fastest GPU-to-GPU communications Eliminates CPU copy and write process in system memory Reduces 30% of the GPU-to-GPU communication time 8 CPU GPU Chip set GPUMemory Mellanox InfiniBand System Memory 1 1 2 2 CPU GPU Chip set GPUMemory Mellanox InfiniBand System Memory 1 1

9. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Efficient use of CPUs and GPUs  CORE-direct (Collectives Offload Resource Engine) Collectives communication are communications used for system synchronizations, data broadcast or data gathering CORE-direct performs the collective on the HCA instead of the CPU Eliminates system noise and jitter issue Increases the CPU cycles available for applications  Transport Offload Full transport offload maximizes CPU availability for user applications Only solutions to achieve 40Gb/s throughput with ~5% CPU overhead 9

10. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Efficient, Scalable and Flexible Networking  Congestion control Eliminates network congestions (hot-spots) related to many senders and a single receiver 10

11. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Efficient, Scalable and Flexible Networking  Adaptive routing Eliminated networks congestions related to point to point communications sharing the same network path 11 220 server node system, Mellanox InfiniBand HCAs and switches

12. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Efficient, Scalable and Flexible Networking  Multiple Topologies Fat-tree: non-blocking, oversubscription Mesh, 3D-Torus Hybrid solutions  Advanced Quality of Service Fine grained QoS Consolidation without performance degradation 12

13. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - Mellanox Performance/Scalability Advantage  Weather simulations at scale with Mellanox end-to-end 13

14. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - 14 Top100 Interconnect Share Over Time  InfiniBand the natural choice for large scale computing All based on Mellanox InfiniBand technology

15. © 2010 MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES - CONFIDENTIAL - The 20 Most Efficient Top500 Systems 15  InfiniBand solutions enables the most efficient system in the Top500  The only standard interconnect solution in the top 100 highest utilization systems #55 US Army Research Laboratory #22 The Earth Simulator Center #93 National Institute for Materials Science #10 Jülich

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