“High performance network transport technology is critical for Alibaba to achieve the throughput and latency required by our services. We are excited to collaborate with Mellanox to deploy its RoCE technology into our infrastructure.” said Dennis Cai, Chief Architect of Network Infrastructure under Alibaba Infrastructure Services.
“Mellanox has pioneered RoCE technology and is now shipping its 7th generation of RoCE capable ConnectX network adapters,” said Amir Prescher, senior vice president of business development at Mellanox Technologies. “Alibaba’s successful large-scale deployment of ConnectX RoCE adapters confirms again that RoCE is a proven technology to accelerate the most demanding workloads in a cost-effective manner. We are thrilled to work with Alibaba to achieve this.”
Mellanox ConnectX network adapters include a range of RoCE centric accelerations, enabling best-in-class performance, scalability, stability and ease of use while achieving significant cost savings compared with non-RDMA based solutions. Among these capabilities are: