thecoolnessrune
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I'd say it has less to do with Infiniband and more with the fact that mellanox as a whole has been extremely aggressive with increasing switching bandwidth on their cards. They continue to release their VPI cards year after year (Infiniband or Ethernet) with their EN (Ethernet only) cards following a short time later. With the 200Gbps cards launching, 25, 40, and 100Gbps have become the new Datacenter standards for new infrastructure, while 10Gbps is essentially commodity. Every new Nutanix Cluster I've implemented this year for instance has had 25Gbps as the minimum connectivity, with 10Gbps only being used for ROBO sites.
If anything, we can thank Mellanox for being highly aggressive with bandwidth increases, and keeping all those increases on an even playing field (both Ethernet and Infiniband) instead of pulling an Intel and trying to reserve high bandwidth connections to their own proprietary interface (Omnipath).
If anything, we can thank Mellanox for being highly aggressive with bandwidth increases, and keeping all those increases on an even playing field (both Ethernet and Infiniband) instead of pulling an Intel and trying to reserve high bandwidth connections to their own proprietary interface (Omnipath).
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