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posted on 25 June 2008 07:52

SANTA CLARA, CA. and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL – June 25, 2008 – Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced that its ConnectX 20Gb/s adapters with PCI Express Gen2 support provide the optimal low latency, high-performance interconnect for the IBM System Cluster 1350, IBM's high-performance, high-density cluster solution.

ConnectX adapters deliver the highest data throughput and lowest latency of any standard PCI Express adapter available today, thereby accelerating applications and data transfers in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.

“Our customers require interconnect with best-in-class price/performance for their high-performance computing and business performance computing workloads,” said Sergio Amoni, director of marketing for System x and BladeCenter at IBM. “Mellanox ConnectX adapters deliver unparalleled performance for the most demanding applications and are ideally suited for the extreme performance supercomputing environments served by the System Cluster 1350.”

“Mellanox’s ConnectX InfiniBand adapters deliver unparalleled I/O connectivity for high-throughput and latency-sensitive clusters,” said Thad Omura, vice president of product marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “The IBM Cluster 1350 with Mellanox ConnectX connectivity provides an ideal solution for a broad range of application environments, including financial services, government and education, industrial design and manufacturing, life sciences, and web serving and collaboration.”

In addition to ConnectX, Mellanox’s single-port InfiniHost III Lx 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters and line of copper InfiniBand cables have been certified by IBM for use with the IBM System Cluster 1350. The InfiniHost III Lx adapter is an ideal solution for cost-sensitive applications seeking to benefit from InfiniBand’s high-performance and low latency characteristics.

About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, interconnect products to world-class server, storage, and infrastructure OEMs servicing Fortune 500 data centers, the world’s most powerful supercomputers, and mission critical embedded applications. The company’s Virtual Protocol Interconnect™ (VPI) enables standard communication protocols to operate over any converged network (InfiniBand, Ethernet, Data Center Ethernet) with the same software solution. Utilizing proven networking, clustering, storage, virtualization and RDMA acceleration engines, VPI optimizes application performance, power consumption, workload agility, and total system efficiency while future-proofing IT infrastructure.

Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and Yokneam, Israel. For more information, visit Mellanox at www.mellanox.com.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}