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InfiniBand chips add Ethernet support
News Mellanox, maker of chips to enable use of the InfiniBand high-speed network technology, said this week it's begun shipping customers samples of a chip that supports both InfiniBand and 10-gigabit-per-second Ethernet.
[April 2, 2007, 10:02]
InfiniBand - Industry Standard Data Center Fabric Is Ready for Prime Time
White Papers Like most nascent technologies, InfiniBand launched with unrealistic hype and expectations only to fall from grace as a result of the industry down-turn in the early 2000s. While many in the press and public eye deemed InfiniBand to never become a...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Infiniband trials 'due in the spring'
News The first servers to use the Infiniband switched-fabric interconnect are likely to find their way into pilot programmes early in the new year. Members of the Infiniband Trade Association (IBTA) say that widespread availability is due by next summer...
[December 7, 2001, 16:49]
InfiniBand gets storage networking boost
News InfiniBand, a high-speed communication technology, has been extended to speak the language of iSCSI networked storage systems. With iSER, it can tap the performance of InfiniBand, which communicates at 10Gbps, but can reach 20Gbps if used with the...
[October 9, 2006, 9:35]
InfiniBand Fabric Topologies
White Papers InfiniBand (IB) is a switched I/O fabric designed for low latency, high bandwidth, and with capabilities that enable very low CPU consumption. HP supports InfiniBand on HP-UX as a High Performance Computing clustering fabric specifically for MPI...
[July 25, 2007, 5:57]
Infiniband demo shows future of computer architectures
News But Infiniband's value to customers is still questionable, said Bert McComas, an analyst with InQuest Market Research. Where you're going to see Infiniband adopted is in the new or expanding infrastructures.
[June 22, 2001, 12:36]
Infiniband -- old before its time?
News In its two-year life, Infiniband has had a tempestuous time. Microsoft has said that it no longer plans to include Infiniband support in .Net Server, due at the end of this year, and Intel has dropped plans to produce an Infiniband chip.
[September 18, 2002, 13:07]
InfiniBand reborn for supercomputing
News After failing to deliver on its promise to remake mainstream business computing, the high-speed networking technology known as InfiniBand may be making a comeback as a new way to create supercomputers.
[November 22, 2002, 8:25]
InfiniBand backer Voltaire files for IPO
News InfiniBand is going public. Several major companies, including Intel and IBM, once envisioned InfiniBand as a general-purpose server communication technology, but instead it has found its main niche linking numerous servers together into high...
[July 11, 2007, 8:56]
InfiniBand sequel is slower but cheaper
News Seeking a better way to make high-end database servers from low-end parts, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and others have begun working on a cheaper alternative to the InfiniBand high-speed networking technology.
[May 6, 2003, 9:32]
Top server makers rally around InfiniBand
News Three of the top four server sellers are rallying around InfiniBand, giving a shot in the arm to a high-speed networking technology that's suffered recent setbacks. In addition, Sun will use InfiniBand in its storage systems and will equip its...
[December 19, 2002, 10:49]
Evaluating the Impact of RDMA on Storage I/O Over InfiniBand
White Papers On the other hand, recently InfiniBand solutions with RDMA capability have become available. Even though InfiniBand has been designed to be a unified interconnection network for both inter-processor and storage communication, its use has been...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
IBM High Performance Computing for Linux on POWER Using InfiniBand
White Papers This paper provides an overview and describes the components and performance of a High Performance Computing (HPC) solution for Linux on POWER using InfiniBand as the cluster interconnects. The paper contains performance results for several...
[February 19, 2007, 0:00]
A Portable Client/Server Communication Middleware Over SANs: Design and Performance Evaluation With Virtual Interface and InfiniBand
White Papers They have implemented the design for both InfiniBand and Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA). This paper addresses the problem of using high performance SAN technologies to provide efficient communication support in client/server type of...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Using InfiniBand for High Performance Computing
White Papers InfiniBand is one of the most important technologies that enable the adoption of cluster computing. This technology brief describes InfiniBand as an interconnect technology used in cluster computing, provides basic technical information, and...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Linux kernel 2.6.15 offers 'full' InfiniBand support
News The latest version of the Linux kernel offers full support for running a Linux cluster on InfiniBand, with the addition of a driver for storage systems based on the high-speed networking standard. Version 2.6.15 of the Linux kernel, which was...
[January 5, 2006, 16:20]
HP InfiniBand Solution for Oracle RAC Environments
White Papers For these applications, InfiniBand technologies can be deployed for the cluster interconnect network, enabling the system to achieve higher levels of performance than with standard Ethernet networks. This white paper explains how to implement an...
[December 1, 2005, 0:00]
Configuring Oracle RAC Over InfiniBand
White Papers This paper is intended to provide the general instructions on how to do the following: install Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS) over InfiniBand; install Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10g R2 over InfiniBand; configure a cluster database on...
[May 15, 2008, 7:59]
Using a Transport Independent Network in a Virtualized Datacenter: An Interoperability Case Study Running Oracle Using iWARP and InfiniBand With the OpenFabrics OFED 1.0 Stack
White Papers It also discusses interoperability of the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.0 supporting InfiniBand and iWARP in a 4 node Intel Bensley-based cluster, where iWARP and InfiniBand technologies are both used, and are transparent from...
[November 4, 2006, 0:00]
Improved Linux InfiniBand support near
News The Linux kernel is on track to include full support the high-speed networking standard InfiniBand by the end of this summer. Roland Dreier, one of the Linux kernel maintainers handling InfiniBand support and a senior software engineer at hardware...
[March 24, 2005, 16:15]
