Mellanox Quantum QM8700 - Switch - smart - 40 x HDR InfiniBand QSFP28 - back to front airflow - desktop, rack-mountable
- Industry-leading switch platform in performance, power, and density
- Designed for energy and cost savings
- Collective communication acceleration
- Maximizes performance by removing fabric congestions
- Backward compatible to previous speeds
- Quick and easy setup and management
Mellanox provides the world's smartest switch, enabling in-network computing through the Co-Design Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) technology. QM8700 has the highest fabric performance with up to 16Tb/s of non-blocking bandwidth with sub-130ns port-to-port latency.
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Scaling-out data centers with HDR 200G InfiniBand
Faster servers, combined with high-performance storage and applications that use increasingly complex computations are causing data bandwidth requirements to spiral upward. As servers are deployed with next generation processors, High-Performance Computing (HPEC) environments and Enterprise Data Centers (EDC) will need every last bit of bandwidth delivered with Mellanox's next generation of HDR InfiniBand, high-speed, smart switches.
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World's smartest switch
Built with the Mellanox Quantum InfiniBand switch device, the QM8700 provides up to forty 200Gb/s ports, with full bi-directional bandwidth per port. These stand-alone switches are an ideal choice for top-of-rack leaf connectivity or for building small to extremely large sized clusters. QM8700 is the world's smartest network switch, designed to enable in-network computing through the Co-Design Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) technology. The Co-Design architecture enables the usage of all active data center devices to accelerate the communications frameworks using embedded hardware, resulting in an order of magnitude application performance improvements. QM8700 enables efficient computing with features such as static routing, adaptive routing, congestion control and enhanced VL mapping to enable modern topologies (SlimFly, Dragonfly+, 6DT). These ensure the maximum effective fabric bandwidth by eliminating congestion hot spots.
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Collective communication acceleration
Collective communication describes communication patterns in which all members of a group of communication endpoints participate. Collective communications are commonly used in HPEC protocols such as MPI and SHMEM. The Mellanox Quantum switch improves the performance of selected collective operations by processing the data as it traverses the network, eliminating the need to send data multiple times between endpoints. It also supports the aggregation of large data vectors at wire speed to enable MPI large vector reduction operations, which are crucial for machine learning applications.
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Management
The QM8700's x86 ComEx Broadwell CPU comes with an on-board subnet manager, enabling simple, out-of-the-box bring-up for up to 2K nodes in the fabric. Running the MLNX-OS software package, it delivers full chassis management through CLI, WebUI, SNMP or JSON interfaces. QM8700 also incorporates Mellanox Unified Fabric Manager software for managing scale-out, InfiniBand, computing environments to enable efficient provisioning, health indications and monitoring of the cluster. UFM ensures that the fabric is up and running at maximum performance at all times.
What's in the box:
- Mellanox Quantum QM8700
- Rack rails kit
- Rack mounting kit
