New York -- Mellanox Technologies Ltd., today introduced the InfiniBand MTS14400 modular switch, a third generation switch designed for large scale clustering applications.

The 144 port switch is the only currently shipping InfiniBand product offering greater than 128 ports and is perfect for High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) applications. The switch is designed to scale clusters from 128 to ten thousand nodes and beyond. In addition, Mellanox is announcing design wins with several OEM partners who will offer the switch as part of complete compute cluster solutions.

The MTS14400 includes an OEM software development kit (SDK) designed to integrate with industry standard adaptive management packages. The SDK is provided as source code and supports sophisticated management applications including in-band health checks, firmware updates, and fabric management.

Based on Mellanox third generation InfiniScale III device, the switch supports full wire speed switching of up to 48 12X (30Gb/s) ports or up to 144 4X (10Gb/s) ports in a high reliability 10U chassis. The third generation switch architecture includes high availability features such as: passive midplane design, and hot-swappable fan and power supply modules.

Current partners offering the MTS14400 include Linux Networx and Ciara Technologies.