A few years back, picking the protocol to link your computers together into a network was a no-brainer. The servers in a mid-sized data center were wired together using Ethernet. And if you wanted to ...

With the network comprising as much as a quarter of the cost of a high performance computing system and being absolutely central to the performance of applications running on parallel systems, it is ...

A group of high performance computing users and technology vendors led by Sun, Dell and Intel will launch on Tuesday an effort to make the InfiniBand input/output architecture easier to use with Linux ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The race toward converged networks took a step forward Monday (April 19) as a trade group announced a capability for layering Infiniband's low latency features on top of Ethernet.

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Oracle recently announced its Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) InfiniBand Fabric. The new software-defined networking-enabled, converged fabric has been introduced to increase application performance so ...

Moore’s Law may be slowing down performance increases in compute capacity, but InfiniBand networking did not get the memo. Mellanox Technologies has actually picked up the pace, in fact, and is ...

After a long gestation, use of InfiniBand (IB) is taking off, and work is under way to add IB support to Linux. At the physical level, IB is similar to PCI Express. It carries data using multiple high ...

Nvidia Corp. is pushing high-performance computing into overdrive with the next generation of its InfiniBand networking platform, Nvidia Quantum-2. Announced today at Nvidia’s GTC 2021 event, Nvidia ...