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Mellanox InfiniBand InterconnectThe Fabric of Choice for Clustering and Storage

September 2008

Gilad Shainer – Director of Technical Marketing

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Company Overview

Silicon-based server and storage interconnect products• R&D, Operations in Israel; Business in California• Four generations of products since 1999• 250+ employees; worldwide sales & support

InfiniBand and Ethernet leadership• Foundation for the world’s most powerful computer• 3.7M 10/20/40Gb/s ports shipped as of Jun08• Proven execution, high-volume manufacturing & quality

Solid financial position• FY’07 $84.1M, 73% growth from FY’06• Record Revenue in 2Q’08, $28.2M• 1H’08 $53.4M, 3Q’08 est. $28.5M-$29M

Tier-one, diversified customer base• Includes Cisco, Dawning, Dell, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM, NEC,

NetApp, QLogic, SGI, Sun, Supermicro, Voltaire

$106M raised in IPO Feb07Ticker MLNX

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InfiniBand End-to-End Products

High Throughput - 40Gb/s Low latency - 1us Low CPU overhead

Kernel bypass Remote DMA (RDMA) Reliability

Blade/Rack Servers StorageSwitch

ADAPTER ADAPTERSWITCH

Adapter ICs & Cards

Cables

Switch ICsSoftware

End-to-End Validation

Maximum Productivity

Cables

Adapter ICs & Cards

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Virtual Protocol Interconnect

StorageNFS, CIFS, iSCSI

NFS-RDMA, SRP, iSER,Fibre Channel, Clustered

NetworkingTCP/IP/UDP

Sockets

ClusteringMPI, DAPL, RDS, Sockets

ManagementSNMP, SMI-S

OpenView, Tivoli, BMC, Computer Associates

10/20/40 InfiniBand

Consolidated Application Programming Interface

App1 App2 App3 App4 AppX…

Acceleration Engines

10GigE Data CenterEthernet

Any Protocol over Any Convergence Fabric

Protocols

Applications

Networking VirtualizationClustering Storage RDMA

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The Fastest InfiniBand Technology

InfiniBand 40Gb/s QDR in full productions• Multiple sites already utilized InfiniBand QDR performance

ConnectX InfiniBand - 40Gb/s server and storage adapter• 1usec application latency, zero scalable latency impact

InfiniScale IV - 36 InfiniBand 40Gb/s switch device• 3Tb/s switching capability in a single switch device

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InfiniBand QDR Switches

1RU 36-port QSFP, QDR switch• Up to 2.88Tb/s switching capacity• Powered connectors for active cables• Available now

19U 18 slot chassis, 324-port QDR switch• Up to 25.9Tb/s switching capacity• 18 QSFP ports per switch blade• Available: Q4 2009

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InfiniBand Technology Leadership

Industry Standard• Hardware, software, cabling, management• Design for clustering and storage interconnect

Price and Performance• 40Gb/s node-to-node• 120Gb/s switch-to-switch• 1us application latency• Most aggressive roadmap in the industry

Reliable with congestion management Efficient

• RDMA and Transport Offload• Kernel bypass• CPU focuses on application processing

Scalable for Petascale computing & beyond

End-to-end quality of service Virtualization acceleration I/O consolidation Including storage InfiniBand Delivers the Lowest Latency

The InfiniBand Performance Gap is Increasing

Fibre Channel

Ethernet

60Gb/s

20Gb/s

120Gb/s

40Gb/s

240Gb/s (12X)

80Gb/s (4X)

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InfiniBand 40Gb/s QDR Capabilities

Performance driven architecture • MPI latency 1us, Zero scalable latency• MPI bandwidth 6.5GB/s bi-dir, 3.25GB/s uni-dir

Enhanced communication• Adaptive/static routing, congestion control

Enhanced Scalability• Communication/Computation overlap• Minimizing systems noise effect (DOE funded project)

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HPC Advisory Council

Distinguished HPC alliance (OEMs, IHVs, ISVs, end-users) Members activities

• Qualify and optimize HPC solutions • Early access to new technology, mutual development of future solutions• Outreach

A community effort support center for HPC end-users• End-User Cluster Center• End- user support center

For details – HPC@mellanox.com

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Thank You

HPC@mellanox.com

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