Ridgeland, Miss.—Communications-board maker Diversified Technology, Inc. (DTI) is readying, and showing, ATCA (AdvancedTCA) blades at the AdvancedTCA Summit conference in San Jose, California (Summit ...

InfiniBand is not limited to HPC sites however; as John from Arizona pointed out last week in an e-mail. It also has a growing footprint at commercial sites, where its ability to centralize the ...

Microsoft, one of the early InfiniBand backers, has reversed a plan to build support for the high-speed networking technology into its next server version of Windows. Microsoft believes that most ...

The semiconductor giant abandons InfiniBand, deciding to apply its development budget elsewhere. But Lee Schlesinger says the decision is more about Intel's resources and less about the end of ...

A group of the most powerful computing companies finishes the first version of InfiniBand, but it'll still be awhile before the new technology reshapes computer designs. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Some InfiniBand switches, such as the one from SilverStorm Technologies Inc., are already hitting 20Gbit/sec. throughput, leaving Fibre Channel and Ethernet at 4Gbit/sec. and 1Gbit/sec ...

When it comes to low-latency interconnects for high performance computing, InfiniBand immediately springs to mind. On the most recent Top 500 list, over 37% of systems used some form of InfiniBand – ...

InfiniBand is a little bit like USB (universal serial bus) for servers, except where USB can transfer 12M bytes per second, InfiniBand has a transfer rate of 2.5G bytes per second, Pappas said.

With InfiniBand, new packets may be sent only when there's room on the network. "Under congestion, Ethernet is really bogged down," Tuchler said. "With InfiniBand, fundamentally it doesn't happen." ...