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Australia’s Largest University Selects Mellanox CloudX Platform And Open Ethernet Switch Systems For Nationwide Research Initiative

Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions, announced today that Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has selected Mellanox CloudX™ platform based on Mellanox’s SwitchX®-2 SX1036 Open Ethernet™ switches, ConnectX®-3 NICs and Mellanox’s LinkX™ cables to provide the fabric for its new cloud data center. The cloud utilizes Mellanox end-to-end 10, 40, and 56Gb/s Ethernet solutions as part of a nationwide initiative to create an open and global cloud infrastructure. Monash selected Mellanox’s RDMA-capable Ethernet technology due to its performance scalability and cloud efficiency improvements.

“The Mellanox CloudX platform enables application defined back-planning, where researchers orchestrate all the various components – cloud, HPC and software – into their own 21st century microscope within our data center,” said Steve Quenette, deputy director of the Monash eResearch Centre. “Mellanox Open Ethernet solutions give us the flexibility and the freedom to optimize the interconnect infrastructure for our needs and to ensure that we will be able to cope with the increase in data, compute and storage requirements of our users.”
Monash University’s cloud node, R@CMon, is part of The National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) Project. NeCTAR aims to enhance research collaboration by connecting researchers throughout Australia and providing them with access to a full suite of digitally-enabled data, analytic and modelling resources that is specifically relevant to their areas of research. Since the initial deployment of a high availability CloudX OpenStack cloud, the University has expanded its RDMA Ethernet fabric to exceed the innovation goals of NeCTAR. The fabric tightly integrates Ceph and Lustre storage with the cloud, meeting the needs of block, object and applications workloads as one converged fabric.
“Mellanox has been a great partner from Day One, and we believe their products were the only choice for the type of unique infrastructure the University required,” said Blair Bethwaite, senior cloud architect at the Monash eResearch Centre. “The Mellanox SwitchX-2 SX1036 Open Ethernet switches provide the flexibility we need and allow us to mix and match capabilities, which is critical for our dense compute architecture. Since integrating the Mellanox solutions, we have been able to achieve greater performance than ever before. It was truly a quantum leap from our previous compute environment.”
“CloudX platforms enable organizations and companies to build the most efficient private and public cloud infrastructure,” said Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “CloudX takes advantage of Mellanox Open Ethernet switch solutions to enable faster data delivery and allowed Monash to build a cloud platform that solves not just today’s challenges, but has the efficiency and scalability to address application demands of the future.”
Supporting Resources:
Learn more about NeCTAR, visit: https://www.nectar.org.au/about-nectar
Learn more about CloudX, visit: http://www.mellanox.com/solutions/cloud/index.php
Learn more about Mellanox Ethernet Solutions, visit: http://www.mellanox.com/page/ethernet_switch_overview
Join the Mellanox Community, visit: http://community.mellanox.com/welcome.
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at http://www.mellanox.com.

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