The Mellanox Technologies company is a supplier of end-to-end solutions of switching on the basis of the standard InfiniBand and Ethernet for servers and storages, the data centers allowing to optimize performance. The headquarters of Mellanox Technologies is located to Sunnyvale, California and Yokneam, Israel.
Switches Ethernet Mellanox Technologies companies are focused on use in DPC and server farms, and have several advantages in comparison with analogs: a non-blocking matrix of switching, the architecture excluding losses of packets; the lowest delays at packet switching; low power consumption; the high supported speeds (10/40/50/100GbE); support of software-defined networks (SDN).
The good selection of products of Mellanox allows users to accelerate operating time of applications and to maximize their business results, on the broad range of the markets including high-performance computing, business applications, applications on the basis of Web 2.0, cloud computing, databases and financial services.
History
2020: Plans of NVidia for Mellanox acquisition completion of the transaction
On April 24, 2020 TAdviser knew of plans of Nvidia corporation in the nearest future to close the deal on acquisition of all assets of the Israeli developer of network equipment and solutions for data centers of Mellanox.[1] the transaction Announced in March, 2020 the other day got approval of the authorities of China. Its closing should take place on April 27, 2020.
Mellanox is the Israeli producer of network equipment and the hardware-software solutions focused on such markets as high-performance computing, data centers, cloud computing, data storage and financial services.
Products of firm include as basic kompnenta for networks are cables, routers and network adapters, and advanced and full-band solutions based on the integrated self-produced chips, including "cloud" smarts adapters (SmartNIC) ConnectX-6 supplied with technologies of enciphering of data transmission IPsec and TLS, and the processor BlueField blocks - programmable adapters which provide hardware implementation of a root of trust, acceleration of cryptography of IPSec/TLS.
Mellanox was one of the first product suppliers based on high-speed InfiniBand technology, and continues to remain one of industry leaders in this area: main competitors of Mellanox are Intel and Oracle.
The company also offers developments based on high-speed solutions based on Ethernet.
NVidia and Mellanox repeatedly cooperated directly: for example, during creation of high-performance supercomputers - Sierra and Summit (their user is the U.S. Department of Energy). Technologies of both companies are used for April, 2020 in 250 supercomputers from the Top 500 list, in addition each "cloud" service provider in the world anyway is a client of NVidia, Mellanox or both of them.
Absorption means that NVidia will be able to offer the clients - producers and operators of data processing centers - more full-scale solutions that it considerably will strengthen NVidia positions against her main competitor - Intel.
 | System integrators and their clients prefer to use the checked technologies from well proved suppliers. Mellanox purchase by NVidia company will strengthen the position both that in anticipation of the future world economic downturn very relevant and for the companies, and for their numerous customers, |  |
2019: Nvidia purchased Mellanox of $6.8 billion.
On March 11, 2019 Nvidia announced acquisition of Mellanox Technologies for $6.8 billion. The buyer will be able to expand with this transaction the fast-growing business on release of solutions for data centers.
Under the terms of the agreement, Nvidia will pay from own means (without attraction of the actions) $125 for each security of Mellanox that is 14% more than a quotation rate of the Israeli company to closing of the exchange on March 8, 2019. After the announcement of the transaction of the stock Mellanox securities of Nvidia — for 1% rose in price for 8.7%, and.
According to Reuters agency with reference to the informed sources, Nvidia fought for acquisition of Mellanox with several companies, including with Intel, Xilinx and other chipmakers. Besides, in the press information on the interest of Mellanox from Microsoft appeared.
The analyst of Bernstein Stacy Rasgon says that Nvidia makes more and more efforts for strengthening of positions in the market of network solutions, and Mellanox will bring to the company additional examination in this direction.
| | But taking measures and purchase of an asset right now, right after a recent big failure, can be surprising. It will probably raise questions concerning whether sees Nvidia some changes concerning a trajectory of growth of their main DPC business — the expert considers. | |
However, for Nvidia acquisition of Mellanox looks attractive as the company invests in accelerators of artificial intelligence based on graphic processors and own high-speed connection which received the name NVLink much. Now Nvidia will be able this hardware ecosystem network interface cards and switches under own brand.
By the beginning of 2019 of the stock Nvidia fell in price approximately for 65% of rather same period of the 2018th because of drop in sales of technologies for production of cryptocurrency. Additional pressure upon financial performance of the company is put by the flat demand upon game chips in China. On this background Nvidia lays great hopes on business in the field of products for data centers which brings to vendor about a third of revenue.
The transaction with Mellanox became the largest acquisition for Nvidia which will strengthen positions of the companies in the market of data centers and will allow to weaken dependence of the American producer on the game industry.
It is expected that the transaction will be closed by the end of 2019, and analysts do not see any obstacles for regulators. Intel, most likely, would have problems as the company and Mellanox are prime vendors of InfiniBand technology — the networking standard which is widely used in supercomputers.
The companies have a long story of cooperation and joint development of innovations, and confirmation to it are Mellanox and Nvidia technologies which ours in the Sierra supercomputers and Summit, managed by the ministry power engineering specialists USA. Besides, many largest suppliers of cloud services at the same time use the graphic processors Nvidia and technologies of an interconnection Mellanox.
Nvidia hopes that it together with Mellanox will be able to offer clients "the optimized workloads in scales of data centers within computing, network infrastructure and infrastructure of data storage to achieve higher performance, the best use of resources and the reduced operating expenses".
Nvidia and Mellanox note that companies the general culture focused on the high performance which provides seamless integration integrates.
After closing of the transaction of Nvidia is going "continue investment into the best practices and specialists in Israel — one of the most important world technology centers".[2]
2017: AMD selected solutions of Mellanox
The switching solutions Ethernet and InfiniBand of Mellanox are selected AMD as preferred solutions for acceleration of new platforms of data processing centers of EPYC. And 100gbit/s Ethernet and EDR (100gbit/s) InfiniBand represent the solutions Mellanox 25, 50 network solutions for connection of EPYC AMD processors, providing the maximum return from investments into cloud computing, Web2.0, Big Data, machine learning, storage and high-performance computing infrastructures.
Activity in Russia
2017
Ngenix tested the high-performance Mellanox Spectrum switch
Russian CDN- the provider Ngenix in 2017 one of the first among the domestic companies tested in practice highly productive switches Spectrum with freely extended Linux in quality OS of the switch. The provider installed the Spectrum SN2410 switch as pilot implementation on one of nodes of a content delivery network (CDN) with the general throughput capability of external connections — 80Gbps. In more detail here.
Mail, IBS, Mellanox: integrated solution for Tarantool
On February 20, 2017 the companies Mail.Ru Group, IBS and Mellanox announced creation of the solution for DBMS Tarantool using technologies of a line SCALA from IBS InterLab and network Mellanox technologies. The universal solution is designed to help the Russian companies and the organizations with creation of flexible datacentrichny architecture, including platforms virtualizations of data and high-performance hubs for industrial Internet of Things. In more detail about it is here.
Support of Mellanox adapters by Raidix company with VPI technology
On February 7, 2017 Raidix announced support of Mellanox ConnectX-4 adapters with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) technology. Their use, according to representatives of the company, will bring additional flexibility and profitability to users of DWH based on RAIDIX including in the field of supercomputer calculations. ConnectX-4 adapters support the InfiniBand and Ethernet protocols with capacity of 100 Gbps, being high-performance switching solutions for corporate DPCs, Web 2.0, cloud computing, supercomputers and DWH. In more detail about it is here.
2016
Announcement of service "Virtual infrastructure on Windows Server 2016"
Infrastructure of service of Cloud Computing company functions on the basis of the server hardware of Lenovo and network equipment of Mellanox tested and prepared for use together with the Windows Server platform of 2016. For ensuring high performance the site on the hyper convergent environment with Full Flash storage based on Storage Space Direct technology which allows to receive the minimum delays during the work with disks is deployed. Control of service is exercised via the Windows Azure Pack interface having much in common with the interface of a management portal Microsoft Azure. In more detail about it is here.
Technology partnership with Brain4Net
At the beginning of August, 2016 Mellanox and Brain4Net combined efforts for the purpose of creation of program-controlled network factories for convergent DPCs based on SDN/NFV technologies and the switching equipment with an open architecture (Open Ethernet) allowing to refuse separation of network into overlay and underlay. Besides, joint solutions of partners will ensure functioning in environments of VMware and OpenStack, allowing to integrate different management systems and virtualizations for the single integrated network. In more detail about it it is possible to read here.
Start of a demo stands by Servionica for acquaintance to RUSTEK platform opportunities
On August 12, 2016 access to two demos stands was open, for Mellanox developed on the equipment, Depo and Huawei. In 14 days selected by Servionika for testing it is possible to get acquainted with complete functionality of the protected platform virtualizations RUSTEK, to carry out transfer of information systems and data migration to "cloud", deployment of test environments and other tests of opportunities of virtualization. In more detail about it is here.
IBS opens the center of SDN technologies
In the middle of June, 2016 IBS announced opening for clients of the center of SDN technologies. The new Competence Center will allow specialists of IBS to get practical experience of work with products for creation of software-defined networks (Software Defined Networks, SDN) and to study specifics of their integration into IT infrastructure. The center will be studied as products of traditional partners of IBS, such as Cisco, Mellanox, HP, VMware, F5, Microsoft, Avaya, and solution based on open standards, including from the Russian developers. In more detail about it is here.
"Иммерс" made a choice for benefit of network solutions of Mellanox
At the beginning of April, 2016 the Immers company announced the choice for benefit of network equipment from Mellanox company during creation of high-performance server solutions for the different industries of the Russian economy, an education system and scientific institutions.
The technology of cooling Immers, completely hermetic and constructed by the principle of a closed loop is the cornerstone of the solutions "Immers". Thanks to it the ultrahigh density of placement of computing resources is provided (performance on a unit) and also high degree of security of a system, at the same time is reached low power consumption.
As a part of server solution of "Immers" applies the solutions Mellanox to creation of high-performance network — the InfiniBand or Ethernet switches and also network adapters (as a part of server modules) which completely plunge into system liquid for ensuring silent work.
Partnership with IBS Interlab in the field of convergent infrastructures
IBS Interlab is the division of IBS company which is engaged in development of infrastructure solutions of high degree of readiness — and Mellanox Technologies company announced at the beginning of February, 2016 the beginning of cooperation. Within the agreement the SKALA-R convergent computing platform will be completed with high-speed switching Ethernet-solutions of the Israeli company.
The SKALA-R convergent computing platform is the completely configured module which consists of the equipment with the preset software for virtualization and also storage, processing and data protection. It allows to bring together in a short space of time data center for the organization of any size and to begin its operation. The SKALA-R platform is implemented based on high-speed switches and Ethernet network interface cards from Mellanox.
Since the beginning of cooperation of IBS and Mellanox Technologies several delivery contracts of the SKALA-R complexes completed with the equipment of the Israeli producer are already signed.
The Ethernet switches from Mellanox are focused on use in DPC and server farms and differ: non-blocking matrix of switching; the architecture excluding losses of packets; low delays at packet switching; low power consumption; the high supported speeds (10/40/50/100GbE); support of software-defined networks (SDN). All this allows to optimize the infrastructure solution SKALA-R and to achieve acceleration of operation of applications and storage systems.
"Products of Mellanox Technologies company are a part of solutions of different global manufacturers that allows us to compare their efficiency. We consider that hardware and software system SKALA-R does not concede to world analogs on such characteristics as performance and fault tolerance, and based on the ratio of costs/performance even wins against them" — Leonid Ziskind, the head of business of Mellanox Technologies in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe said.
2015
Installation of a computing cluster "Cherenkov" in NIYaI MEPhI
In December, 2015 the Immers company together with the INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM of RAS by request of NIYaU MEPhI completed the project on creation of the computer system including 20 nodes with a peak capacity of 16.4 of Tflops. High-speed InfiniBand network, integrating cluster nodes, it is organized using network solutions of Mellanox and provides capacity of 56 GB / page. In more detail about it is here.
Implementation Croc together with Mellanox of the new file system based on Ceph
By means of the lock Mellanox switches SX1012 with VPI licenses (on two on everyone DPC) InfiniBand-networks of two data centers on which capacities are placed cloud platform Croc (IaaS), were united in a uniform circuit. Switches execute a role of Proxy-ARP of the gateway which can broadcast traffic from network Ethernet in an Infiniband-segment. In more detail about it is here.
Deployment of "cloud" within MakeCloud service from Servionika
In July, 2015 within IaaS- the service MakeCloud provided by the company "Servionika" (I-Tecocloud Group "), in detail based on Mellanox equipment (two-port network ConnectX adapters 10GbE-3 Pro, 40/56GbE switches SX1012 SwitchX-2 and cables). In more detail about it is here.
Start of service of DataLine Could-V based on the equipment of Dell and Mellanox
Cloud-V represents failsafe cloud infrastructure on the platform of technology virtualizations Microsoft Hyper-V and a management portal Windows of Azure Pack. For creation of a computing cluster the following equipment is used: 4-socket servers Dell from processors Intel Xeon E5 4 - 4640 v2, 40 cores of CPU and 512 GB of RAM, switches Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40GbE and Mellanox MSX1710 SwitchX-2 based 40GbE network interface cards. In more detail about it is here.
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