Mellanox CEO: We only provide high speed network
chinaai.com.cn
Time: 2017-01-15
Many years ago, referring to the name of Mellanox, many people still think that strange, it is widely known only exists in the HPC scale. But along with the growth of HPC, especially in recent years, the depth of learning, artificial intelligence muster energy applications, more and more customers as usual on the data transmission speed of development, bandwidth and serenity increasing demand occurred , So the name Mellanox began to be widely known. Recently, the author had the honor to interview the Mellanox company founder, president and CEO, Mr. Eyal Waldman, listen to his future growth and the company to deal with the mastery and judgments.
Eyal Waldman suggests that beginning in 2005, the market will have explosive data growth, especially cloud computing, big data variety of new concepts and methods, high-performance care, education and other rigid subvert the existing IT market, but also to the amount of data thrown dash multiples promotion. "As more and more devices are generating more and more data, data is followed by more and more applications, and these applications are continually generating data as well as clarifying the data that they end up with to the data center to complete all its manipulation "go.
As a InfiniBand network company started, Mellanox today's business has no scope for IB network itself. In fact, with the exaggerated business limitations, market share promotion, the original IB network business in the company's overall business share is getting smaller and smaller, Ethernet business growth for the company's main business. "Top 10 automobile manufacturing company, within the first five pharmaceutical companies, there are three with our product, before oil companies 10 have nine with our network products, there are major Web 2.0 companies, etc." , Says Eyal Waldman. He said these Web 2.0 companies, many of them from China, such as Baidu , Jingdong like again.
Although, in the IB network started, Mellanox still show the industry leader in the position. In contrast to the mainstream 100G network, Mellanox in the field to the media announced the 200G product more details, such as in the performance, in the framework and in the energy consumption of the transformation. These products are expected in the next year can be officially listed, and even 200G Ethernet switch will also be presented over the same period.
Intel has been Mellanox's biggest rival in the size of the IB network. In fact, Intel is not a long time to enter this scale, but by virtue of the integrated processor, accelerator brings the value of the advantages of contrast Mellanox in the overall solution for the program level can provide more favorable value to customers. To this end, Mellanox from the application efficiency, the overall cost of ownership, etc. for customers to clarify, Eyal Waldman is outspoken one of the crux of the address -
"The overall situation, a few people are considerate value, as long as the initial value of self-made, he would buy the system, then these people will choose Omni-Path system.But most customers care about the system Efficiency, you can probably have many things in this system can be completed is their most considerate.Especially you have a system, you have to run it for several years.If you just considerate in the beginning of the procurement cost is low, in the Investment in the next few years, in fact, the cost of drowned are higher, squandering the capital because your thing is not complete, so there will be more other inputs into.Therefore, on the whole, if it is to maintain a System operation and maintenance costs, with lower capital, then, did not look tight at the beginning of the procurement costs, so the efficient network can guarantee your entire system in the running of the high efficiency, thereby reducing your operating costs and ownership capital".
Eyal Waldman's "efficient network" is the Mellanox InfiniBand products, Mellanox more emphasis on providing customers with "higher data transfer speeds, faster data calculation skills, better data security." Not only that, but also in the depth of training, finance, database, storage, large data and many other emerging scale, InfiniBand products are also being more and more customers believe. He even referred to the recent raging of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of a large area of ??continuous haze - "so bad weather I went to Beijing, is to serve more customers, enhance the company's performance."
At the end of the interview, Eyal Waldman hinted: "Mellanox is the only one that can provide a 200G network, and can meet these high transmission needs, so we can find their own strong point of a stop, at this point To inherit and expand our product innovation, around the high-speed network to inherit growth. " |
