Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has entered the emerging InfiniBand market with a 2.5-Gbit/s physical-layer (PHY) transceiver. InfiniBand is a switch-fabric technology that creates networks of servers, ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Marking the first anniversary of the Infiniband spec's release, Mellanox Technologies rolled out its second-generation product Monday (Oct. 22), an Infiniband switch with an ...

In addition to addressing flexible resource allocation and creating significant cost and power savings, these virtualization technologies create an abstraction layer that can provide easier management ...

The InfiniBand standard had an address space that peaked at 40,000 nodes, and today there are big clusters installed with 20,000 to 30,000 nodes; with 36-port switches, the practical limit is 11,664 ...

The other current product is the InfiniScale MT43132, an eight-port 10-Gbps InfiniBand switch with integrated physical layer serializer/deserializer (SerDes) interfaces.

Common physical layer issues underlie new I/O standards By Kevin Donnelly, Vice President, Network Communications Division, Rambus Inc., Los Altos, Calif., ... 2- or up to 12-wire link widths, over ...

Infiniband delivers high transfer speeds—up to 56Gbps—between compute nodes. As IBM points out (rather irrelevantly but to give a sense of perspective) ...

At the physical layer, Omni-Path implements its credit-based flow control and adaptive routing. Above this sits the OpenFabrics Alliance software layer, an open-source abstraction that Cornelis ...

InfiniBand® Trade Association releases updated specification, delivering XDR, increased bandwidth to meet the demands of AI and HPC data centers.

InfiniBand typically packs four SerDes into a network adapter port or a switch port, yielding HDR 200Gb/s speed (the InfiniBand specification allows to pack up to 12 SerDes together).

IBTA Spec Volume 1 Release 1.5 introduces Memory Placement Extensions to reduce Persistent Memory latency, includes NDR 400Gb/s InfiniBand support.