I've just gone through reading a bunch of articles on how Infiniband is an emerging and potentially very succesful technology, but they're not very technical and detailed.
Does anyone know more about it? My understanding is that it sorta blurs the line between system I/O and network I/O, and would probably be very useful in computational/beowulf clusters as well as storage area networks.
One commnet I saw in a few articles was that it was a more "message based" technology than "packet based" (one article said more message based than load/store based).
Can anyone tell me more about what differentiates the versions 1X, 4X, etc (besides bandwith). What kind of cabling it uses and how?
bart
Does anyone know more about it? My understanding is that it sorta blurs the line between system I/O and network I/O, and would probably be very useful in computational/beowulf clusters as well as storage area networks.
One commnet I saw in a few articles was that it was a more "message based" technology than "packet based" (one article said more message based than load/store based).
Can anyone tell me more about what differentiates the versions 1X, 4X, etc (besides bandwith). What kind of cabling it uses and how?
bart
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