This is the so-called offloading approach that is fundamental to Mellanox’s technology strategy. But he said the bidding was competitive owing to the interconnect – specifically the intelligent interconnect – becoming more important than ever, with more of the computing workload conducted on the interconnect fabric. Huang would not or could not confirm reports that Intel was in the mix. Rumors are that the Mellanox bidding process, which kicked off last year under pressures from activist investor firm Starboard (which purchased a 10.7 percent stake in the company in November 2017 – see our coverage at the time), was highly competitive and that Intel was a top contender. We will be in position to address this large market opportunity much better,” he said. Long-term, I think we have the opportunity to create datacenter-scale computing architectures short-term, Mellanox’s footprint in datacenters is quite large. And the network itself, the fabric, will become part of the computing fabric. “We believe that in future datacenters, the compute will not start and end at the server, but the compute will extend into the network. “Datacenters are the most important computers in the world today, and in the future – as the workloads continue to change triggered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics and data sciences – future datacenters of all kinds will be built like high performance computers,” said Huang. Another that might not have been top of everyone’s mind: getting a foothold in Israel - although if you watch the space closely, you know what a hotbed of technological innovation Israel is.īut the primary reason is Nvidia’s conception of the changing strategic role, and changing architecture, of the datacenter of the 2020s. Of course, there are other reasons too, playing keep-Mellanox-away-from-Intel for one. If that’s your vision – as it is Nvidia’s – that’s a darn good reason to buy one of the world’s leading HPC interconnect companies. “Future datacenters of all kinds will be built like high performance computers,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a phone briefing on Monday after Nvidia revealed scooping up the high performance networking company Mellanox for $6.9 billion. Since 1987 - Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run Them
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