NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand Switches

NVIDIA Mellanox provides the world’s fastest and smartest switches, enabling in-network computing through Mellanox SHARP technology. The Quantum QM8700 series has the highest fabric performance available in the market with up to 16Tb/s of non-blocking bandwidth with sub 130ns port-to-port latency. Built with Mellanox’s Quantum InfiniBand switch device, the QM8700 series provides up to forty 200Gb/s full bi-directional bandwidth per port. Additionally, the QM8700 switch is available in both managed and externally managed models.

Based on the NVIDIA Mellanox Switch-IB^® 2 device, the Mellanox’s SB7800 switch series provide up to 36x100Gb/s full bi-directional bandwidth per port. The SB7800 switch systems are smart network switches,that enable in-network computing through Mellanox SHARP technology. This architecture enables all active data center devices to accelerate the communications frameworks using embedded hardware, that results in order of magnitude application performance improvements. The SB7800 switch is available in both managed and externally managed models.

The NVIDIA Mellanox SB7780 InfiniBand router enables a new level of scalability and isolation that is critical for the next generation of data-centers. The SB7780 InfiniBand router is based on the Switch-IB^™ switch ASIC and offers fully flexible 36 EDR 100Gb/s ports, which can be split among six different subnets. The SB7780 InfiniBand Router can connect between different types of topologies. Therefore, it enables each subnet topology to best fit and maximize its applications performance. For example, the storage subnets may use a Fat-Tree topology while the compute subnets may use 3D-torus, DragonFly+, Fat-Tree or other topologies that best fit the local application. The SB7780 can also help split the cluster in order to segregate between applications that run best on localized resources and between applications that need a full fabric.

The NVIDIA Mellanox CS8500 switch series provides up to 800-ports HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand, enabling the fastest interconnect speed for high-performance computing and cloud infrastructures. As the world’s smartest network switch, CS8500 switches deliver an optimally-performing fabric solution in a 29U form factor, with 320Tb/s of full bi-directional bandwidth and ultra-low port latency. The CS8500 combines the advantages of Mellanox’s SHARP-based in-network computing, adaptive routing, and congestion control, and more to enable order of magnitude HPC and AI application performance improvements and extremely high scalability. The CS8500 also leverages Mellanox’s SHIELD™ (Self-Healing Interconnect Enhancement for Intelligent Datacenters) to overcome link failures, enabling network recovery 5000x faster than any other software-based solution.

The NVIDIA Mellanox CS7500 series of smart Director switches provide up to 648-ports EDR 100Gb/s—enabling the highest performing fabric solution for Enterprise Data Centers and High-Performance Computing environments in an up to 28U form factor. Networks built on the CS7500 series deliver 130 Tb/s of full bi-directional bandwidth with 400ns port latency, and carry converged traffic combining assured bandwidth and granular quality of service. CS7500 smart network switches also enable in-network computing using Mellanox SHARP software—an architecture that enables accelerating the communications frameworks using embedded hardware, resulting in order of magnitude application performance improvements. The SB7800 switch is available in 3 different port configurations: 648 / 324 / 216 ports.