InfiniBand holds the promise of greatly increasing I/O speeds and reducing the footprint of server clusters through a less costly single backplane between blade-type servers. But its promise as a ...

Sponsored Moving more bits across a copper wire or optical cable at a lower cost per bit shifted has been the dominant driver of datacenter networking since distributed systems were first developed ...

InfiniBand is set to hit 200Gbps (bits per second) in products that were announced Thursday, potentially accelerating machine-learning platforms as well as HPC (high-performance computing) systems.

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. By building on the natural ...

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 ...

Dr. Casimer DeCusatis is a senior technical staff member with IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, New York, responsible for eServer technology roadmaps, and a co-author of the initial InfiniBand ...