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| | InfiniBand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | InfiniBand is a high-speed serial computer bus, intended for both internal and external connections. | | | Infiniband is the result of merging two competing designs, Future I/O, developed by Compaq, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, with Next Generation I/O (ngio), developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. | | | Further competing with Infiniband are the various TCP and Ethernet augmentations, such as TCP Offload Engines, and RDMA Ethernet. |
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| | InfiniBand® Trade Association: About Us |
| | InfiniBand is also being used for embedded computing, an area in which proprietary components are being replaced by higher-performance, standardized, off-the-shelf equivalents. | | | Since the advent of mainframe computing, the most important data center requirement has been the resiliency of the compute complex. | | | In addition to server clusters, InfiniBand unifies the compute, communications and storage fabric in the data center. |
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| | InfiniBand* Architecture |
| | InfiniBand Architecture represents a new approach to I/O technology and is based on the collective research, knowledge, and experience of the industry's leaders. | | | From helping to guide the standards bodies that enable InfiniBand architecture to become a reality, to working with the industry on software stack development, Intel is committed to ensuring successful, industry-wide adoption of InfiniBand architecture. | | | With leading Intel server customers offering both Intel®; Xeon™ and Intel®; Itanium® processor based platforms featuring InfiniBand connectivity for the HPC and data center market segments, Intel will continue to work with the industry to ensure that InfiniBand architecture performance capability runs best on Intel®; architecture platforms. |
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| | Topspin to link Sun with InfiniBand CNET News.com |
| | InfiniBand is a standard developed by IBM, Intel, and several other companies so computing devices can be connected with links that transfer large quantities of data with minimal delays. | | | Things haven't been easy for InfiniBand start-ups, as larger companies such as Intel backed away from InfiniBand and existing technologies were extended instead of extinguished. | | | Sun, Dell Computer and IBM went out of their way in late 2002 to voice InfiniBand support, but Sun had the most aggressive plans. |
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| | Storage magazine (May 2002) : What you should know about InfiniBand |
| | Both InfiniBand and Ethernet are topology-independent - they rely on switches and routers to forward data packets from the source to the destination, rather than imposing a specific bus or loop configuration on the architecture. | | | Unlike Ethernet, which spans the globe, InfiniBand is optimized for data centers that have a few machine rooms or are distributed over a campus or part of a city. | | | Although InfiniBand could theoretically span greater distances using switches and routers in the same way as Ethernet, those distances are more limited in practical applications. |
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| | InfiniBand Set to Speed Up Servers |
| | InfiniBand devices are reputedly designed to be compatible with a broad range of existing hardware devices and software operating systems to facilitate easier upgrading. | | | InfiniBand is the culmination of the combined efforts of about 80 members that are led by industry giants Intel, Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Sun Systems who collectively call themselves the InfiniBand Trade Association. | | | InfiniBand isn't the first technological advance to put its foot in the door with hopes of speeding up computer systems. |
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| | ITworld.com - Vendors look to shine light on InfiniBand |
| | InfiniBand is a 2.5G bit/sec, point-to-point server interconnect technology that lets multiple I/O devices make requests for data of the system CPU at the same time without delays or congestion. | | | InfiniBand will first be implemented as host and target channel adapters and switches. | | | Network managers will most likely install InfiniBand servers, switches and adapters in Internet data centers where it will cluster servers to increase computational capability, or in database operations that are I/O intensive, says Bert McComas, an analyst with Inquest Market Research. |
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| | InfiniBand Products for Apple Mac Computers Exclusively from Small Tree Communications |
| | Thanks to the InfiniBand architecture and fast processors like the Apple G5, it is now possible for almost any university, lab, or commercial research facility in the world to deploy Teraflop levels of computing power to solve truly complex issues. | | | In order to ensure that this InfiniBand solution is reliable in addition to being optimized for the OS X platform, Small Tree has also been collaborating with OSU. | | | SilverStorm Technologies offers a completely integrated solution for designing InfiniBand fabrics - from the adapters, software, and middleware required for the host environment - to the managed, multi-protocol switching fabric built with the industry's most versatile family of 10-30 Gbps switching systems. |
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| | EETimes.com - InfiniBand scales as a network switch |
| | InfiniBand achieves this goal by using a unified fabric to connect elements of computer systems. | | | Infiniband building blocks are designed from the ground up to support high availability, as demonstrated in the following example. | | | By the time InfiniBand gains momentum in the marketplace, perhaps in 2002, a tremendous installed base of Fibre Channel and SAN products will be in place, particularly in the enterprise-class environments where InfiniBand makes its presence known first. |
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| | InfiniBand Firms Eye High Performance Computing |
| | InfiniBand (define) is an extremely fast, low latency interconnect technology used to pipe data between processors and devices, such as computer servers. | | | Voltaire will also be introducing its InfiniBand Database Solution for 64-Bit Computing at LinuxWorld. | | | Though it became bogged down by the lagging economy in the last few years, some experts believe InfiniBand is capable of a meteoric rise in 2004, given the explosion in high performance computing (HPC), where customers are using clusters and grids to support large-scale scientific and exploratory projects. |
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| | Wired News: Inheritor of the PCI Legacy |
| | The chips are based on a technology called InfiniBand, which was formerly referred to by the working name of System I/O. InfiniBand is being developed by the InfiniBand Trade Association, which is backed by both IBM and Intel. | | | The idea behind InfiniBand is to clear the network by refining the way that data is processed and passed between storage devices. | | | The long-anticipated next generation of server technology is one step closer to reality with Tuesday's announcement by IBM Microelectronics of new chips that can turn a network of multiple PCs and peripherals into one high-performance cluster computer. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37083,00.html
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| | InfiniBand Fabrics Weave Performance into Communications and Industrial Solutions RTC Magazine |
| | InfiniBand solves this with open source drivers and upper layer protocol stacks that are included directly with every Linux kernel distribution (version 2.6.11 and beyond). | | | Vendors are getting onto the InfiniBand wagon with standard chassis solutions that trump the costs and development times of proprietary high-speed interconnects. | | | The end result is a more efficient embedded computing blade, and ultimately peak performance for the entire system. |
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| | Storage Networking World Online - How To Plan / Implement Storage Networks - Despite Microsoft and Intel defections, ... |
| | While InfiniBand has been mentioned as a storage interconnect (http://www.snwonline.com/tech_edge/04-09-01_infiniband.asp), or even as an internal bus for PCs and servers, "The initial applications will focus on server clustering, and then we'll see additional applications, in 2003, for storage," says Jim Lyons, senior product manager for JNI Corp., a maker of Fibre Channel hardware and software. | | | Unfortunately, InfiniBand suffered two very public black eyes this summer when Intel announced it was ending development work on its own InfiniBand chips, and Microsoft dropped plans to provide native InifiniBand support in its upcoming Windows.Net Server operating system. | | | InfiniBand supporters say they're still cautiously upbeat about prospects for the proposed interconnect standard, even though Microsoft and Intel have dramatically scaled back plans to develop Infiniband-capable products. |
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| | GRIDtoday: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF INFINIBAND ARCHITECTURE FOR THE GRID? |
| | The InfiniBand architecture was developed by the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) including Cisco, Compaq (now HP), Dell, IBM, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Sun and many others to become an industry standard data center interconnect. | | | Berk: High Performance Computing and Database Grid computing clustering both require the standards and performance that InfiniBand delivers so it natural that they are being deployed now. | | | The specification is the result of the cooperation of some of the best minds in the industry focused on expanding the commodity capabilities of enterprise computing in the 21st century. |
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| | InfiniBand makes a comeback |
| | By design, InfiniBand fabrics have the potential to perform better and to be more interoperable, reliable and scalable than existing technologies, according to advocates of the technology. | | | If Cisco's vision sounds a little far fetched, that's because InfiniBand is largely limited to high-performance computing environments today. | | | Engenio Information Technologies Inc. will unveil the industry's first storage array that supports native InfiniBand connectivity, at the Supercomputing show in Seattle. |
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| | O'Reilly Network -- An Introduction to the InfiniBand Architecture |
| | So, the InfiniBand will be able to achieve must higher data transfer rates than is physically possible with the shared bus architecture without the fan-out limitations of the later. | | | This feature is extremely important from the performance perspective since many such I/O operations between two storage devices can be totally off-loaded from the server, thereby eliminating the unnecessary CPU utilization that would otherwise be consumed. | | | To resolve this limitation on the bandwidth of the PCI bus, a number of solutions are becoming available in the market as interim solutions such as PCI-X and PCI DDR (Mellanox Technologies, "Understanding PCI Bus, 3GIO, and InfiniBand Architecture"). |
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| | Infiniband nearly ready |
| | INFINIBAND, the industry wide "future bus" standard that emerged from a fight between Intel's own NGIO and IBM, Compaq's and others' "Future IO", should be available in devices by this time next year. | | | He showed copper cable and a working card which Intel demonstrated at an Infiniband "plugfest" last June and said that compatibility problems were close to being resolved. | | | Steve Cutler, who runs Intel's workstation and server business here in the UK, outlined current plans for Infiniband at a round table (actually a set of square tables) earlier this week. |
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| | Guess who's back? Infiniband |
| | The vendors believe the technology is best suited to data centers employing data clustering, grid computing, and distributed computing -- three technologies used in shared computing environments that feature reusable resources such as storage, memory, and processors. | | | The vendors noted the Infiniband standard is already flexible enough to integrate with existing Fibre Channel and Ethernet infrastructures and is much quicker as well. | | | Described as a low-latency, high-performance transport for data flow between processors and I/O devices, IBM, Dell, and Sun anticipate Infiniband appearing in servers as early as next year. |
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http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/19/021219hninfiniband.html
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| | Intel exits, but InfiniBand intact - TechUpdate - ZDNet |
| | Instead of InfiniBand, Intel is expected to devote a lot of developmental resources to PCI Express, an upcoming I/O bus specification formerly known as 3GIO. | | | Semiconductor giant Intel, which had planned to develop chips to enable InfiniBand, decided to apply its development budget elsewhere. | | | Its 10Gbps full-duplex (20Gbps aggregate) theoretical throughput is well-suited for high-end enterprise usage where a lot of storage, network, and CPU resources need to work together. |
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| | PRESS RELEASE Voltaire Delivers InfiniBand Solutions for Power Mac G5 Supercomputers |
| | Leveraging the world's fastest personal computer, Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions will enable advanced computing facilities at universities and in the industry to build powerful supercomputers using low cost, grid configurations instead of expensive mainframe systems and proprietary networking technologies. | | | Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions deliver significant return on investment to the data center by improving the performance and utilization of clustered databases, shared servers and storage. | | | Voltaire is a leading provider of high performance InfiniBand solutions for enterprise data centers and HPC environments. |
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| | The New InfiniBand Standard |
| | InfiniBand is likely to play a significant role in the architecture of the many vendors' storage systems in the next 3 to 5 years. | | | The InfiniBand Trade Association whose members include Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems (essentially all of the major server vendors)—as well as 120+ other members—will make version 1.0 specifications publicly available in late June or early July. | | | We should see InfiniBand added to servers that appear in the fourth quarter of 2000 or the first quarter of 2001—about the time that Intel's McKinley chip (IA-64) will appear. |
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| | EETimes.com - Group to develop Infiniband Linux software |
| | The Open Infiniband Alliance expects its first-generation set of standard Infiniband software drivers will be available later this year will be used primarily in high-end technical computing applications. | | | OpenIB will complement the work of the Infiniband Trade Association that oversees the development of the core Infiniband spec but is forbidden by its charter from developing Infiniband software or application programming interfaces. | | | Engenio plans to demonstrate at the Supercomputing 2004 conference in Pittsburgh in November the first generation of Infiniband Linux software in its arrays used in so-called high-performance computing clusters. |
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| | Dell Adds Infiniband Switches to Its High-Performance Computing Cluster Configurations |
| | Topspin InfiniBand switches and Host Connectivity Adaptors will be available in bundled 24- and 64-node Dell HPCC configurations running Red Hat Linux in the first quarter of 2004. | | | Through a new agreement with Topspin Communications, Dell customers can select InfiniBand switches for their high-performance computing clusters (HPCC) that perform as well as proprietary-based switching fabrics at a low cost. | | | Dell Adds Infiniband Switches to Its High-Performance Computing Cluster Configurations |
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| | Mellanox Ships Over 200,000 InfiniBand Port to Customers |
| | Another example of the impact that InfiniBand has made is the Virginia Tech 1100-Node InfiniBand cluster that is ranked as the THIRD fastest performing computer in the world. | | | Mellanox Infini¬Band interconnect solutions today provide over eight times the performance of Ethernet, and over three times the performance of proprietary interconnects. | | | A great example of this was the Teraflop-Off-The-Shelf InfiniBand cluster that Intel and Mellanox deployed on the show floor at Supercomputing 2003 Conference. |
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| | InfoStor - Is InfiniBand poised for a comeback? |
| | While many in the storage industry thought it was dead, InfiniBand found a niche in the high-performance computing (HPC) world connecting huge clusters of servers. | | | Recently, HPC administrators started asking why they couldn't use InfiniBand for their storage networks, too. | | | In addition to HPC environments, Eunice thinks that certain vertical markets with clustered databases will be interested in storage devices with native InfiniBand. |
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| | Hardware Today — Cutting Through the Infiniband Buzz |
| | If the universities and research labs that comprise the early adopters using Infiniband for high-performance computing and clusters are any indication, the technology will continue making a dent in the increasingly Intel grid-centric Top 500 as time elapses. | | | Voltaire, a Massachusetts-based provider of Infiniband switches and other hardware, is one vendor dangling incentives to encourage enterprises to deploy Infiniband. | | | Whitepaper: The Business Value of HP-UX 11i vs. Linux--Read how HP-UX 11i, a true mission critical computing environment, can offer overall savings of 16% over a Linux solution on IA-32. |
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| | Infiniband - Network World |
| | Enterprise users interested in high-speed, low-latency I/O switching fabric InfiniBand, but concerned about being locked into a specific vendor because of proprietary drivers needed to deploy the technology should keep an eye on a new group that is... | | | InfiniBand took center stage at Supercomputing 2005 in Seattle last week as LSI Logic, SGI, Verari and Voltaire introduced server and storage systems... | | | Cisco last week bolstered its InfiniBand switch portfolio with the announcement of two switches and a management software package. |
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| | InfiniBand |
| | Indeed, InfiniBand switches can be integrated into existing Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks to extend their functionality. | | | As an active component, an HCA is able to manage a connection and create a path from the system’s memory to the InfiniBand network. | | | Given the throughput specifications for InfiniBand along with the design criteria to lets multiple I/O devices make requests simultaneously to the system CPU for data, without delays or congestion, the obvious next question is how will the new HCAs and TCAs deliver this level of performance in a PCI bus? |
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| | InformationWeek Storage Spotlight Shines On InfiniBand At Supercomputer Show November 14, 2005 |
| | SGI unveiled Monday what it said is the industry’s first native server-to-storage InfiniBand solution while Isilon Systems said its clustered storage technology has been partnered with Cisco Systems’ products to bring more than 2,500 InfiniBand switches to the marketplace. | | | The company said the device is based on Engenio’s 6498 storage system and it interfaces with components from Voltaire and Mellanox Technologies. | | | One supercomputing specialist, Ann Fried, chair of Microway, said the progress of InfiniBand has reached the point where systems houses and cluster developers are rushing to take advantage of the robust technology. |
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| | SUN EMBRACES INFINIBAND TECHNOLOGY FOR NEXT-GENERATION DATA CENTER |
| | "Infiniband's standard low latency and high bandwidth capabilites create new opportunities in the software architecture of the data center," said John Fowler, chief technology officer of Sun Software. | | | Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. | | | Sun is also participating in the OpenGroup's Interconnect Software Consortium, which is defining UNIX APIs for InfiniBand and similar transports. |
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http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2002-12/sunflash.20021219.1.xml
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| | Improved Linux InfiniBand support near - ZDNet UK News |
| | Roland Dreier, one of the Linux kernel maintainers handling InfiniBand support and a senior software engineer at hardware vendor Topspin Communications, told ZDNet UK this week that he and his fellow InfiniBand maintainers have almost completed their work enabling support for storage protocols and clustering APIs running over Infiniband in the Linux kernel. | | | At present, many companies running InfiniBand on Linux are relying on proprietary drivers, but this is likely to change when full InfiniBand support is added. | | | At present, high-performance computing tends to rely on expensive specialist hardware, but InfiniBand makes it possible on clusters of commodity servers, although this will require chipset makers such as Intel to add InfiniBand support for these servers. |
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| | InfiniBand Brings HPC Power to Enterprise Storage |
| | The standard software stack for InfiniBand comes by way of the Open IB organization, which is also seen by Engino's Weber as a key driver in helping overcome barriers to adoption. | | | LSI Logic's Engenio division has also jumped on the InfiniBand storage bandwagon, as has Microsoft, which includes support for InfiniBand in its new Compute Cluster Server 2003 beta. | | | The technology has also found support in the solid state storage market with Texas Memory Systems, and is moving into other segments of the market. |
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| | InfiniBand - Computerworld |
| | The HCA will connect a computer to a channel-based InfiniBand switch that links it to mass storage systems, routers and other peripherals outfitted with InfiniBand Target Channel Adapters (TCA). | | | But, Pearson says, with InfiniBand systems, applications can make the calls directly to the storage system that manages the file, freeing the CPU from unnecessary interrupts. | | | That's how InfiniBand solves the distance issue of bus-based architectures like PCI, which measures its distance from a CPU motherboard in inches or even centimeters. |
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| | Microsoft cancels InfiniBand development |
| | The announcement comes on the heels of Intel's decision to stop InfiniBand development and HP's intentions to support InfiniBand as a technology that is bridged or routed to rather than native in servers and storage devices. | | | Microsoft will continue to work with software and hardware vendors to integrate Windows products into their InfiniBand implementations. | | | "Gigabit Ethernet technologies, while not as performant today as InfiniBand, are now able to address the demands a higher range of server capabilities with no additional software or management expense," the spokesperson added. |
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| | Infiniband approaches debut |
| | Supporting the roll out of Infiniband, Intel this week announced the availability of DTA (Device Test Agents) for Infiniband-enabled computing systems. | | | The software to deal with Infiniband on every [system] is dramatically different from what we have today," Brookwood said. | | | But experts such as Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Saratoga, Calif.-based Insight 64, said that for Infiniband to deliver on its promise, the I/O technology must maintain its allure to IT professionals who have the choice of simpler, existing I/O technologies. |
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| | InfiniBand* Architecture - Interoperability |
| | The Intel&; Interoperability Lab is a world-class facility designed to support and enable the industry in the development and design of interoperable InfiniBand* products. | | | That means early testing and development efforts are essential, and participation in the Intel Interoperability Lab will afford access to a wide range of resources that will move this goal closer to reality. | | | The lab is available to industry leaders who wish to ensure their solutions interoperate with Intel&; server and InfiniBand products. |
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| | InfiniBand |
| | The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is developing InfiniBand—a switched-fabric I/O standard that in a few years might make PCI as obsolete as ISA. | | | InfiniBand implementations will likely debut in high-end server and storage networks, which can best absorb the initial costs. | | | The IBTA likes to call InfiniBand an intelligent channel, comparing it to the IBM System 390's (S/390's) I/O subsystem's intelligent channels. |
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| | CommsDesign - IBM, Topspin collaborate on InfiniBand switches |
| | LONDON — Infiniband switch and adapter start-up Topspin Communications has inked a five-year deal with IBM Corp. to integrate its switch technology into IBM systems. | | | "Working with Topspin, our plan is to make InfiniBand a base technology for all IBM eServer systems and storage, and the underlying fabric for future initiatives around on-demand computing," Shearer added. | | | Topspin products are already completing IBM Server Proven certification and have been IBM TotalStorage Proven and validated for sale with IBM DB2 Universal Database on xSeries servers. |
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http://www.commsdesign.com/news/market_news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17300636
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| | GRIDtoday: Voltaire Dispels Misconceptions About InfiniBand |
| | Established in August, 1999, the InfiniBand Trade Association is led by enterprise technology leaders Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. | | | Designated for Information Technology executives, the InfiniBand IT Roadshow will feature sessions on deployment strategies for InfiniBand architecture, the benefits that InfiniBand delivers to data centers and cost-effective deployment strategies. | | | The session will focus on how the InfiniBand architecture allows IT professionals to achieve the balance necessary to deliver the advantages of high-speed computer networks by providing a standards-based interconnect fabric for servers, storage and I/O. About Voltaire Inc |
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| | e-clips: INFINIBAND |
| | The IBX-4204 mezzanine card uses the InfiniPath InfiniBand ASIC from PathScale to bring low-latency, high-bandwidth clustering capability to embedded form factors such as CompactPCI and VME, and is the first XMC to use HyperTransport as the host interface. | | | Texas Memory Systems will be demonstrating their 4x InfiniBand interface this week at SC05, the Supercomputing conference in Seattle, Washington. | | | Texas Memory Systems, makers of the World's Fastest Storage, announced it has developed solid state storage technology that utilizes an InfiniBand interface, an open I/O architecture that provides scaleable performance of 2.5 Gigabits per second to 120 Gigabits per second. |
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http://www.eg3.com/eclips/html/2005-11-28/network_infiniband_blank.html
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| | SGI Unveils Industry's First Native Server-to-Storage InfiniBand Solution |
| | SGI's TP9700 is based on Engenio's 6498 storage system and interfaces with commercially available InfiniBand components from Voltaire and Mellanox Technologies, recognized leaders in interconnect solutions for high- performance computing (HPC). | | | Supporting the SGI InfiniteStorage vision to integrate seamlessly and scale infinitely, the new TP9700 capability reduces complexity, lowers costs and maximizes throughput for InfiniBand-based Linux(R) OS clusters. | | | The announcement came today at SC05 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage (November 12-18 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center), where SGI, its partners and its customers will demonstrate high-performance storage solutions enabled by a new native InfiniBand interface for its SGI(R) InfiniteStorage TP9700 disk array. |
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| | Byte and Switch - Content-Addressable Storage (CAS) - Sanmina Relights InfiniBand Fire - Storage Networking News ... |
| | Next, the enabling software to manage InfiniBand connectivity is taken care of by Lane15 Software and, more recently, InfiniCon Systems Inc. For anyone wondering what happened to VIEO Inc. 's intellectual property around InfiniBand software, Sanmina appears to have it. | | | In the InfiniBand space, Sanmina will own the intellectual property to the technology but rebrand it under the name of its OEM customers. | | | "We are going to be the primary channel for [VIEO's] InfiniBand software," Thompson says (see InfiniCon Preps Software Unit, VIEO Goes Vanilla, and Lane 15 Picked for IB Test). |
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| | InfiniBand* Architecture - Product Development Kit |
| | Start developing today, or augment your current development with the latest InfiniBand architecture- based hardware and software. | | | The PDK contains the latest Intel InfiniBand hardware, software, and development tools to help industry vendors build prototypes and develop and test production components. | | | The enhancement of the PDK program underscores Intel's commitment to advancing InfiniBand product development. |
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http://www.intel.com/technology/infiniband/ibainterop/pdk.htm
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| | PRESS RELEASE Voltaire Adds PathScale InfiniBand Adapters to Its Grid Solutions Portfolio |
| | Voltaire is the worldwide leader in grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center. | | | Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization and scalability across compute clusters, storage and IP networks. | | | This is the latest in a series of developments that demonstrate how PathScale InfiniPath has become the high-performance InfiniBand interconnect of choice for performance-minded cluster users. |
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=96514
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| | What is InfiniBand? |
| | The Linux InfiniBand Project is a collection of sub-projects and activities all focused around the common goal of providing the operating system software components needed to support an InfiniBand fabric, specifically for the Linux operating system. | | | Hardware transport protocols are defined that support reliable and unreliable messaging (send/receive), and memory manipulation semantics (e.g., RDMA read/write) without software intervention in the data transfer path. | | | This project is focused on promoting, enabling and delivering the software components needed to support an InfiniBand fabric for the Linux operating system. |
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/links/LK6555687952.html
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| | Dell Offering InfiniBand Capabilities |
| | Dell Inc. is bringing InfiniBand capabilities to its high-performance computing cluster configurations via technology from Topspin Communications Inc. | | | Topspin, of Mountain View, Calif., has entered into agreements with other OEMs, including IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. The company makes switches and adapters designed to integrate the high-bandwidth, low-latency technology into data centers. | | | Dell bundles hardware, software and services into its HPC cluster configurations, which scale from eight to 128 nodes. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1528311,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
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| | QoS in InfiniBand Subnetworks |
| | In another, we evaluated our strategy to compute the InfiniBand arbitration tables for traffic with delay requirements, which is a more complex task. | | | In previous papers, we have proposed a strategy to compute the InfiniBand arbitration tables. | | | [5] F.J. Alfaro, J.L. Sánchez, J. Duato, and C.R. Das, A Strategy to Compute the InfiniBand Arbitration Tables Proc. |
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http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/trans/td/&toc=comp/trans/td/2004/09/l9toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/TPDS.2004.46
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