Mellanox Technologies has announced that its RDMA technology for InfiniBand running Windows Server 2012 RC Hyper-V achieved a benchmarked 10.36GB/sec throughput with 4.6 percent CPU overhead. This performance was achieved on Supermicro Servers and JBODs, OCZ’s Talos 2R SSDs and LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285 storage controllers featuring LSI Fast Path I/O acceleration software, all connected by Mellanox’s InfiniBand interconnect solution.
Mellanox Technologies has announced that its RDMA technology for InfiniBand running Windows Server 2012 RC Hyper-V achieved a benchmarked 10.36GB/sec throughput with 4.6 percent CPU overhead. This performance was achieved on Supermicro Servers and JBODs, OCZ’s Talos 2R SSDs and LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285 storage controllers featuring LSI Fast Path I/O acceleration software, all connected by Mellanox’s InfiniBand interconnect solution.
This solution from Mellanox targets I/O performance bottlenecks that occur in virtualized data centers due to growth in the number of Virtual Machines (VM) per physical server, and leverages new SMB Direct technology in Windows Server 2012. Mellanox’s RDMA-based technologies include the company’s FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE with RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) interconnect products.
Availability
A full turnkey system solution is available through Supermicro, OEM RAC Model SRS-14URKS-0604-01-VI011.
