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	InfiniBand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		InfiniBand is a high-speed serial computer bus, intended for both internal and external connections.
		InfiniBand uses a switched fabric topology so several devices can share the network at the same time (as opposed to a bus topology).
		Infiniband is the result of merging two competing designs, Future I/O, developed by Compaq, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, with Next Generation I/O (ngio), developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Infiniband (902 words)

	InfiniBand® Trade Association: About Us
		InfiniBand is a high performance, switched fabric interconnect standard for servers.
		InfiniBand implementations are prominent in server clusters where high-bandwidth and low latency are key requirements.
		InfiniBand is also being used for embedded computing, an area in which proprietary components are being replaced by higher-performance, standardized, off-the-shelf equivalents.
	www.infinibandta.org /about (2204 words)

	Define InfiniBand - a definition from Whatis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		InfiniBand is an architecture and specification for data flow between processors and I/O devices that promises greater bandwidth and almost unlimited expandability in tomorrow's computer systems.
		In the next few years, InfiniBand is expected to gradually replace the existing Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) shared-bus approach used in most of today's personal computers and servers.
		InfiniBand is the result of merging two competing designs, Future I/O, developed by Compaq, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, with Next Generation I/O, developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.
	searchstorage.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci214596,00.html (559 words)

	InfiniBand* Architecture
		From helping to guide the standards bodies that enable InfiniBand architecture to become a reality, to working with the industry on software stack development, Intel is committed to ensuring successful, industry-wide adoption of InfiniBand architecture.
		The InfiniBand Trade Association is dedicated to developing a new common I/O specification to deliver a channel based, switched fabric technology that the entire industry can adopt.
		InfiniBand Architecture represents a new approach to I/O technology and is based on the collective research, knowledge, and experience of the industry's leaders.
	www.intel.com /technology/infiniband (363 words)

	O'Reilly Network -- An Introduction to the InfiniBand Architecture
		By agreeing to join their efforts, the ITA was both able to eliminate the confusion in the market that would have resulted from the coexistence of the two competing standards but it was also able to release a first version of the specification very quickly.
		Version 1.0 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification was released in October of 2000 and the 1.0a version, mainly consisting of minor changes to the 1.0 version, was released in June of 2001.
		InfiniBand breaks through the bandwidth and fanout limitations of the PCI bus by migrating from the traditional shared bus architecture into a switched fabric architecture.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/2002/02/04/windows.html (1956 words)

	InfiniBand Fabrics Weave Performance into Communications and Industrial Solutions \| RTC Magazine
		InfiniBand, an industry standard interconnect technology that is backed by a well supported trade association, has not only established itself as an out-of-the-box interconnect used to cluster commodity servers and storage into an efficient supercomputer, but has also found a home in traditional performance networking and industrial applications.
		InfiniBand is the only standard fabric that supports up to 60 Gbit/s blade-to-blade performance (by using 12 SerDes interfaces running in parallel at 5 Gbits/s) inside a single chassis and can expand this fabric externally to other systems via copper or fiber cables.
		InfiniBand solves this problem with low-priced, standard silicon adapters the size of a U.S. dime, which connect the fabric to PCI Express.
	www.rtcmagazine.com /home/article.php?id=100389 (840 words)

	EETimes.com - InfiniBand scales as a network switch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		InfiniBand is a new interconnect architecture designed to significantly boost data transfers between servers and peripherals.
		InfiniBand abandons the shared-bus concepts of the PCI bus, shifting I/O control from processors to a channel-based, switched-fabric, point-to-point, full-duplex interconnect architecture.
		The InfiniBand switched fabric brings increased bandwidth, and the abilities to aggregate bandwidth as connections are added, easily isolate a fault to a single connection, and upgrade connections and their bandwidth one at a time as new technologies are developed.
	www.eetimes.com /story/OEG20000918S0042 (1898 words)

	Storage Networking World Online - How To Plan / Implement Storage Networks - Despite Microsoft and Intel defections, ...
		InfiniBand is a proposed standard for providing high-bandwidth I/O among servers, among networks, or among servers and storage devices or other peripherals.
		InfiniBand's ability to move I/O processing out of the physical server and into the InfiniBand fabric is just as important as its sheer speed.
		While InfiniBand has been mentioned as a storage interconnect (http://www.snwonline.com/tech_edge/04-09-01_infiniband.asp), or even as an internal bus for PCs and servers, "The initial applications will focus on server clustering, and then we'll see additional applications, in 2003, for storage," says Jim Lyons, senior product manager for JNI Corp., a maker of Fibre Channel hardware and software.
	www.snwonline.com /plan/infiniband_09-16-2002.asp?article_id=158 (1076 words)

	InfiniBand - Internetnews.com - Webopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Instead of sending data in parallel, which is what PCI does, InfiniBand sends data in serial and can carry multiple channels of data at the same time in a multiplexing signal.
		InfiniBand channels are created by attaching host channel adapters (HCAs) and target channel adapters (TCAs) through InfiniBand switches.
		InfiniBand architecure is capable of supporting tens of thousands of nodes in a single subnet.
	inews.webopedia.com /TERM/I/InfiniBand.html (212 words)

	Storage magazine (May 2002) : What you should know about InfiniBand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Both InfiniBand and Ethernet are topology-independent - they rely on switches and routers to forward data packets from the source to the destination, rather than imposing a specific bus or loop configuration on the architecture.
		Unlike Ethernet, which spans the globe, InfiniBand is optimized for data centers that have a few machine rooms or are distributed over a campus or part of a city.
		InfiniBand has special features to ensure the reliable delivery of data packets, such as response timeouts and flow-control methods that help avoid lost packets due to congestion.
	storagemagazine.techtarget.com /strgFeature/0,291266,sid35_gci821124_idx1,00.html (1017 words)

	Intel exits, but InfiniBand intact - TechUpdate - ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		InfiniBand is an interconnect fabric that can connect disk arrays, storage area networks, local area networks, servers, and server clusters.
		The InfiniBand market is very active, as evidenced by the 180 members of the InfiniBand Trade Association.
		Instead of InfiniBand, Intel is expected to devote a lot of developmental resources to PCI Express, an upcoming I/O bus specification formerly known as 3GIO.
	techupdate.zdnet.com /techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2868287,00.html (655 words)

	InfiniBand Products for Apple Mac Computers Exclusively from Small Tree Communications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		InfiniBand, the scalable, high bandwidth, low latency cluster interconnect networking technology, is available now for the Apple platform.
		Thanks to the InfiniBand architecture and fast processors like the Apple G5, it is now possible for almost any university, lab, or commercial research facility in the world to deploy Teraflop levels of computing power to solve truly complex issues.
		In order to ensure that this InfiniBand solution is reliable in addition to being optimized for the OS X platform, Small Tree has also been collaborating with OSU.
	www.small-tree.com /infiniband.htm (773 words)

	InfiniBand reborn for supercomputing \| CNET News.com
		The surge in support is a reversal of fortune for InfiniBand, a standard initially developed by computing giants including IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq Computer, Dell Computer and Sun Microsystems to succeed the omnipresent PCI technology used to plug devices such as network cards into computers.
		InfiniBand failed in its original mainstream mission, with Microsoft and Intel stepping away from the technology.
		InfiniBand may not have dazzled the computer industry, but it has reached data transfer speeds yet to be attained through more ordinary networking technologies such as Ethernet or Fibre Channel.
	news.com.com /2100-1001-966777.html (1098 words)

	ITworld.com - Vendors look to shine light on InfiniBand
		InfiniBand companies this week will show switches and network adapters at NetWorld+Interop to IT professionals who are largely unaware of the high-speed interface they would use in servers to relieve network congestion.
		InfiniBand is a 2.5G bit/sec, point-to-point server interconnect technology that lets multiple I/O devices make requests for data of the system CPU at the same time without delays or congestion.
		InfiniBand will first be implemented as host and target channel adapters and switches.
	www.itworld.com /Comp/1159/NWW010507infiniband (829 words)

	Storage Networking World Online - Tech Edge - InfiniBand I/O standard will enhance storage networking
		InfiniBand enables increasing data flow rates on servers, storage devices and interconnect devices through the I/O fabric.
		A fabric of InfiniBand switches and links is used to provide connections between servers, remote storage and networking devices.
		InfiniBand technology will be initially used to connect servers with remote storage networking devices and with other peer servers.
	www.snwonline.com /tech_edge/04-09-01_infiniband.asp (1809 words)

	InfiniBand Set to Speed Up Servers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		InfiniBand is a new bus technology that hopes to replace the current PCI bus standard that only supports up to 133Mbps across the installed PCI slots, providing a maximum shared bandwidth of just 566 Mbps (Megabits per second).
		InfiniBand is the culmination of the combined efforts of about 80 members that are led by industry giants Intel, Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Sun Systems who collectively call themselves the InfiniBand Trade Association.
		InfiniBand devices are reputedly designed to be compatible with a broad range of existing hardware devices and software operating systems to facilitate easier upgrading.
	www.infinisource.com /features/infiniband.html (604 words)

	InfiniBand analyzer, infiniband analyzers, infiniband protocol analyzers, InfiniBand analyser, infiniband analysers
		The difficulty of the validation task is further burdened by InfiniBand's high data rate and robust interoperability features designed in to the standard.
		InfiniBand is a channel-based, serial switched, fabric I/O technology designed to meet the requirements of a high-speed, standard interconnect for large servers.
		InfiniBand has the ability to configure device specific prioritization with 15 independent levels (VL0-14) and one management path (VL15) available.
	www.lecroy.com /tm/Solutions/Protocol/infiniband.asp?menuid=29 (1202 words)

	Infiniband nearly ready
		INFINIBAND, the industry wide "future bus" standard that emerged from a fight between Intel's own NGIO and IBM, Compaq's and others' "Future IO", should be available in devices by this time next year.
		This diagram is useful for understanding where the current thinking is on Infiniband, which is meant to eventually display the different kinds of PCI buses currently around.
		Infiniband is a trade organisation with around 200 members and all the usual suspects are there, including AMD and Via, as well as the PC companies and a heap of others.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=405 (346 words)

	Hardware Today — Cutting Through the Infiniband Buzz
		Further muddying the waters is a newcomer that has been inching slowly toward data center acceptance: Infiniband, a standards-based collaborative effort that provides 10 GB per second performance.
		Infiniband is both an I/O architecture and a specification for the transmission of data between processors and I/O devices that has been gradually replacing the PCI bus in high-end servers and PCs.
		Infiniband has been gaining traction with early adopters, as evidenced in the latest Top 500 Supercomputer list unveiled last week.
	www.serverwatch.com /hreviews/article.php/3374471 (810 words)

	Wired News: Inheritor of the PCI Legacy
		The chips are based on a technology called InfiniBand, which was formerly referred to by the working name of System I/O. InfiniBand is being developed by the InfiniBand Trade Association, which is backed by both IBM and Intel.
		The idea behind InfiniBand is to clear the network by refining the way that data is processed and passed between storage devices.
		Three versions of InfiniBand are planned: one that can transfer data at the rate of 500 MB per second, one at 2 GB per second, and one at 6 GB per second.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,37083,00.html (705 words)

	GRIDtoday: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF INFINIBAND ARCHITECTURE FOR THE GRID?
		InfiniBand’s RDMA semantics guarantee the throughput and latency requirements for clustering applications, the throughput and reduced CPU overhead for block storage applications, and the protocol off-load to obtain better throughput per CPU cycle for IP network applications.
		In contrast, InfiniBand is a technology specified, developed and tested by the collaborative efforts of over a hundred significant worldwide organizations in a wide range of markets.
		For all-purpose networking applications, InfiniBand will be utilized to connect blade/brick servers within a single chassis as well as to connect multiple chassis to form larger networks.
	www.gridtoday.com /02/1111/100704.html (1895 words)

	Topspin to link Sun with InfiniBand \| CNET News.com
		InfiniBand is a standard developed by IBM, Intel, and several other companies so computing devices can be connected with links that transfer large quantities of data with minimal delays.
		Sun, Dell Computer and IBM went out of their way in late 2002 to voice InfiniBand support, but Sun had the most aggressive plans.
		Things haven't been easy for InfiniBand start-ups, as larger companies such as Intel backed away from InfiniBand and existing technologies were extended instead of extinguished.
	news.com.com /2100-1010-992694.html (864 words)

	InfoStor - Is InfiniBand poised for a comeback?
		InfoStor - Is InfiniBand poised for a comeback?
		InfiniBand is deployed primarily in server clusters ranging from two to thousands of nodes.
		The Open IB Alliance had a positive influence on InfiniBand adoption, but there were other factors as well, such as rumblings from the HPC community.
	www.infostor.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=245425&p=23 (830 words)

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