Red Hat's Solutions Achieve Ethernet-based Data Center Fabric Performance

Red Hat and Mellanox Technologies have announced that Red Hat (News - Alert) Enterprise MRG with the open Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard and Red Hat Enterprise Linux achieved Ethernet-based data center fabric performance.

 

In tests conducted by Red Hat, they delivered a 42 percent reduction in latency using Mellanox (News - Alert) ConnectX-2 with RDMA over Ethernet (RoE), with throughputs up to 1.2 million acknowledged messages per second, with latencies in the 10 microseconds range.

Moreover, Red Hat has enabled support for ConnectX-2 with RoE in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

 

Company officials noted that complex IT infrastructure requires many components to work well together to form a complete application stack that delivers that level of performance.

 

Combined with the MRG Realtime kernel and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system environment, the foundation layers comprises of verified real-time capable hardware. Above the foundation are essential mid-tier components such as real-time Java runtime, messaging, grid scheduling provided by Red Hat, and also connectivity solutions from Mellanox.

 

"There is a growing class of enterprise and cloud applications that have demanding time constraints and scaling requirements that are unable to be satisfied with general-purpose operating systems and I/O technologies," said Tim Burke, vice president for Platform Engineering at Red Hat.

 

Burke said that by delivering an integrated, standards-based Red Hat and Mellanox solution, the company is enabling IT organizations to reduce costs as well as provide the value of realtime access to information in broad markets, such as financial services, telecommunications and a large variety of real-time Java applications.

 

Mellanox Technologies is a supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance. RDMA over Ethernet (RoE) is an add-on feature to the company's ConnectX-2 adapters that implements the IBTA's RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) standard and uses OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) and application programming interfaces (APIs).

 

The ConnectX-2 with RoE adapter delivers up to 1/10th the latency at the OFED API level. Company officials said that it saves power consumption and delivers improved economics unlike other standards-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter solutions in the market. ConnectX-2 with RoE now supports 40 Gigabit Ethernet.

 

"We are extremely pleased to offer this joint Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Mellanox ConnectX-2 based solution to OEMs and end-users that value IT as a competitive edge and need to see immediate results when using a solution," said Sujal Das, senior director of product management at Mellanox Technologies.

 

Red Hat is a provider of open source solutions. Recently, the company announced the expansion of its virtualization collaboration with the integration of Cisco (News - Alert) Virtual Network Link, or VN-Link, technology with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.