Mellanox MSB7700-ES2F 36x QSFP28 100Gb - Infiniband Switch

Built with Mellanox’s latest Switch-IB™ InfiniBand switch device, EDR uses efficient 64/66 encoding while increasing the per lane signaling rate to 25Gb/s. The SB7700 provides up to thirtysix 100Gb/s full bi-directional bandwidth per port. These stand-alone switches are an ideal choicemfor top-of-rack leaf connectivity or for building small to extremely large sized clusters. The SB7700 enables efficient computing with features such as static routing, adaptive routing, and congestion control. These features ensure the maximum effective fabric bandwidth by eliminating congestion hot spots. This device is an excellent choice for:

• High-Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters: The SB7700 excels in environments that demand extreme compute power distributed across many nodes. It delivers ultra-low latency and full 100 Gb/s bandwidth per port, making it ideal for tightly-coupled parallel computing tasks. This includes scientific simulations, engineering modeling (CFD, FEA), quantum chemistry, and physics research.
• AI and Deep Learning Infrastructure: In modern AI workloads, especially those using NVIDIA GPUs or large-scale model training, interconnect speed is often a bottleneck. The SB7700 eliminates that by providing a high-throughput fabric that ensures data can move between GPU servers or nodes without congestion — enabling efficient distributed training and faster convergence of deep learning models.
• Research Supercomputing Centers: Ideal for academic and government research institutions operating Tier-1 and Tier-2 supercomputers. The SB7700 supports InfiniBand fabric topologies like fat-tree or dragonfly, enabling large node counts while maintaining deterministic latency and high bisectional bandwidth — critical for scalable simulations and real-time processing.
• Financial Modeling and Real-Time Analytics: Financial institutions using real-time analytics, Monte Carlo simulations, or time-sensitive trading applications benefit from the deterministic latency and lossless transport of InfiniBand. The SB7700 provides consistent microsecond-level performance necessary for latency arbitrage, fraud detection, and market modeling at scale.
• Digital Content Creation and Render Farms: Studios rendering films, animations, or special effects need to move huge asset files and intermediate renders across compute nodes. The SB7700 provides the high-throughput, low-latency connectivity needed to keep render pipelines operating at full efficiency, especially in parallel rendering workflows.
• Genomics and Bioinformatics Platforms: With sequencing technologies producing terabytes of raw data per experiment, genomics clusters require extremely fast and predictable interconnects. The SB7700 facilitates efficient compute-to-storage and node-to-node transfers, making it a strong fit for genomic alignment, variant calling, and large-scale biological data analysis.
• Scalable Parallel File Systems: The SB7700 is an excellent choice for building the backbone of high-throughput parallel file systems like Lustre, GPFS, or BeeGFS. These environments benefit from InfiniBand’s high bandwidth and low latency to deliver fast I/O across hundreds or thousands of clients accessing shared storage simultaneously.
• Carrier-Grade Telecom and Network Fabrics: Telecom providers can use the SB7700 in their internal data transport networks where massive bandwidth and low-latency backbones are needed for signaling, content delivery, and edge compute offloading. It supports deterministic behavior and congestion control mechanisms that are superior to traditional Ethernet in some of these use cases.
• Aerospace, Defense, and Government Simulations: Applications in mission-critical modeling, such as satellite simulations, radar processing, or battlefield scenario modeling, require real-time data synchronization between compute nodes. The SB7700’s InfiniBand architecture offers the performance and reliability necessary for secure and deterministic processing environments.