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  • >> [Announcer] From Denver, Colorado, it's the Cube

  • covering Super Computing 17, brought to you by Intel.

  • (techno music)

  • >> Welcome back, everybody, Jeff Frick with the Cube.

  • We are at Super Computing 2017 here in Denver, Colorado.

  • 12,000 people talking about big iron, heavy lifting,

  • stars, future mapping the brain,

  • all kinds of big applications.

  • We're here, first time ever for the Cube, great to be here.

  • We're excited for our next guest.

  • She's Susan Bobholtz, she's the Fabric Alliance Manager

  • for Omni-Path at Intel, Susan, welcome.

  • >> Thank you.

  • >> So what is Omni-Path, for those that don't know?

  • >> Omni-Path is Intel's high performance fabric.

  • What it does is it allows you to connect systems

  • and make big huge supercomputers.

  • >> Okay, so for the royal three-headed horsemen

  • of compute, store, and networking,

  • you're really into data center networking,

  • connecting the compute and the store.

  • >> Exactly, correct, yes. >> Okay.

  • How long has this product been around?

  • >> We started shipping 18 months ago.

  • >> Oh, so pretty new?

  • >> Very new.

  • >> Great, okay and target market, I'm guessing

  • has something to do with high performance computing.

  • >> (laughing) Yes, our target market is high performance

  • computing, but we're also seeing a lot of deployments

  • in artificial intelligence now.

  • >> Okay and so what's different?

  • Why did Intel feel compelled that they needed

  • to come out with a new connectivity solution?

  • >> We were getting people telling us they were concerned

  • that the existing solutions were becoming too expensive

  • and weren't going to scale into the future,

  • so they said Intel, can you do something

  • about it, so we did.

  • We made a couple of strategic acquisitions,

  • we combined that with some of our own IP

  • and came up with Omni-Path.

  • Omni-Path is very much a proprietary protocol,

  • but we use all the same software interfaces

  • as InfiniBand, so your software applications just run.

  • >> Okay, so to the machines it looks like InfiniBand?

  • >> Yes. >> Just plug and play and run.

  • >> Very much so, it's very similar.

  • >> Okay what are some of the attributes

  • that make it so special?

  • >> The reason it's really going very well is that it's the

  • price performance benefits, so we have equal to,

  • or better, performance than InfiniBand today,

  • but we also have our switch technology

  • is 48 ports verses InfiniBand is 36 ports.

  • So that means you can build denser clusters

  • in less space and less cables, lower power,

  • total cost of ownership goes down,

  • and that's why people are buying it.

  • >> Really fits into the data center strategy

  • that Intel's executing very aggressively right now.

  • >> Fits very nicely, absolutely, yes, very much so.

  • >> Okay, awesome, so what are your thoughts here at the show?

  • Any announcements, anything that you've seen

  • that's of interest?

  • >> Oh yeah, so, a couple things.

  • We've had really had good luck on the Top 500 list.

  • 60% of the servers that are running a 100 gigabyte fabrics

  • in the Top 500 list are running connected via Omni-Path.

  • >> What percentage again?

  • >> 60%

  • >> 60? >> Yes.

  • >> You've only been at it for 18 months?

  • >> Yes, exactly.

  • >> Impressive. >> Very, very good.

  • We've got systems in the Top 10 already.

  • Some of the Top 10 systems in the world are using Omni-Path.

  • >> Is it rip and replace, do you find,

  • or these are new systems that people are putting in.

  • >> Yeah, these are new systems.

  • Usually when somebody's got a system they like

  • and run, they don't want to touch it.

  • >> Right.

  • >> These are people saying I need a new system.

  • I need more power, I need more oompf.

  • They have the money, the budget,

  • they want to put in something new,

  • and that's when they look to Omni-Path.

  • >> Okay, so what are you working on now,

  • what's kind of next for Omni-Path?

  • >> What's next for us is we are announcing a new

  • higher, denser switch technology,

  • so that will allow you to go for your director class

  • switches, which is the really big ones,

  • is now rather than having 768 ports,

  • you can go to 1152, and that means, again,

  • denser topologies, lower power, less cabling,

  • it reduces your total cost of ownership.

  • >> Right, I think you just answered my question,

  • but I'm going to ask you anyway.

  • >> (laughs) Okay.

  • >> We talked a little bit before we turned the camera on

  • about AI and some of the really unique challenges of AI,

  • and that was part of the motivation behind this product.

  • So what are some of the special attributes of AI

  • that really require this type of connectivity?

  • >> It's very much what you see

  • even with high performance computing.

  • You need low latency, you need high bandwidth.

  • It's the same technologies, and in fact,

  • in a lot of cases, it's the same systems,

  • or sometimes they can be running software load

  • that is HPC focused, and sometimes they're running

  • a software load that is artificial intelligence focused.

  • But they have the same exact needs.

  • >> Okay.

  • >> Do it fast, do it quick.

  • >> Right, right, that's why I said

  • you already answered the question.

  • Higher density, more computing, more storing, faster.

  • >> Exactly, right, exactly.

  • >> And price performance.

  • All right, good, so if we come back a year from now

  • for Super Computing 2018, which I guess is in Dallas

  • in November, they just announced.

  • What are we going to be talking about,

  • what are some of your priorities

  • and the team's priorities as you look ahead to 2018?

  • >> Oh we're continuing to advance the Omni-Path

  • technology with software and additional capabilities

  • moving forward, so we're hoping to have

  • some really cool announcements next year.

  • >> All right, well, we'll look forward to it,

  • and we'll see you in Dallas in a year.

  • >> Thanks, Cube.

  • >> All right, she's Susan, and I'm Jeff.

  • You're watching the Cube from Super Computing 2017.

  • Thanks for watching, see ya next time.

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>> [Announcer] From Denver, Colorado, it's the Cube

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