Beijing Meteorological Service Selects 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand to Accelerate New Supercomputing Platform

SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE – Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that Beijing Meteorological Service has selected 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand interconnect solutions to accelerate a new supercomputing platform. The new system will be used for enhancing weather forecasting, improving climate and environmental research, and serving the weather forecasting information needs of the China 2022 Winter Olympics.

HDR InfiniBand’s high data throughput, extremely low latency, the smart In-Network Computing acceleration engines, enhanced congestion control and adaptive routing characteristics, provide Beijing Meteorological Service with the capabilities to build an intelligent weather research system. The system will provide smart detection capabilities, fine-grained weather services, climate environmental assessment, and public meteorological processing.

"The 200G HDR InfiniBand technology and solutions help to accelerate high-performance computing, deep learning and cloud applications at any scale, and enable the development of next generation supercomputing infrastructures to serve these applications,” said Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "Intelligent weather predictions require an intelligent supercomputer that can move data quickly and analyze it as fast as possible. We are excited to be part of the project that will support the 2022 China Winter Olympics, and look forward to continuing work with Beijing Meteorological Service in the future.”

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Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance. Mellanox offers a choice of high-performance solutions: network and multicore processors, network adapters, switches, cables, software 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, network security, telecom and financial services. More information is available at: www.mellanox.com.

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