Truce reached in computing standards battle
News Intel then announced it was developing a switched fabric interconnect for next-generation computers that would provide a quantum leap over PCIX. Intel and the three are developing the I/O specifications separately and will merge them to form the...
[August 31, 1999, 9:06]
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 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]
Utilizing Path Diversity in Optical Packet Switched Interconnection Networks
White Papers A SPINet switching fabric is comprised of a set of wideband 2×2 photonic switching nodes organized in a Multistage Interconnection Network (MIN). SPINet (Scalable Photonic Integrated Network) was recently introduced as an optical packet switched...
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
IBM BladeCenter Remote SAN Boot for HS20 (8678/8832) and HS40 (8839)
White Papers If the Blade Server is connected to the Storage Array via FC switches, please reference the IBM eServer BladeCenter Interoperability guide first for instructions to correctly integrate the BladeCenter into an existing FC switched fabric.
[October 30, 2009, 2:27]
Optically Controlled 2?2 Switching Cell for Packet-Switched Networks
White Papers switching cell which can be used as the switching fabric of an all-optical 2? Recently, by using the multimode injection locking property and bistability characteristics of Fabry-Perot laser diode (FP-LD), the paper demonstrated all-optical on-off...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Infiniband -- old before its time?
News Unlike the PCI bus, it is designed specifically for data centre applications, connecting hosts and I/O devices through a switched or routed fabric. It can route information through back-up paths if part of the fabric stops working, it has variable...
[September 18, 2002, 13:07]
National Semi revamps Net appliance chip
News National Semi said Geodelink's new pathway, called a switched fabric because it allows different blocks of the chip to connect to each other independently, will result in higher bandwidth and therefore better performance for multimedia.
[June 15, 2001, 8:39]
Infiniband demo shows future of computer architectures
News Infiniband's channel-based, switched fabric architecture is designed to provide a chassis-to-chassis high-speed link between servers and storage devices. This week, Infiniband proponents gathered at a trade association meeting in Orlando, Florida...
[June 22, 2001, 12:36]
