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Infiniband Architecture

ALSO CALLED: I/O Architecture, System IO, IO Architecture, Infiniband, and System I/O
DEFINITION: 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  … 
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Importance of Unified I/O in VMware® ESX Servers
sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Unified I/O in VMware ESX servers deliver many cost and power savings advantages.
Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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InfiniBand Software and Protocols Enable Seamless Off-the-shelf Applications Deployment
sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The focus of this article is to discuss what application developers need to know to enable their IP, SCSI, iSCSI, sockets or file system based applications to operate over InfiniBand.
Posted: 04 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007
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InfiniBand for Storage Applications
sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: InfiniBand defines an industry-standard implementation of remote direct memory access, protocols and kernel bypass to minimize CPU overhead allowing computing resources to be fully used on application processing rather than network communication.
Posted: 04 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007
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How to Reduce Power and Cooling Costs While Boosting Server Performance
sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: I/O technology plays a key role in meeting many of the spending drivers - provisioning capacity for future growth, efficient scaling of compute, LAN and SAN capacity helping reduce TCO and doing so while enhancing data center agility.
Posted: 03 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Enabling NAS Clusters: The Silicon Storage Appliance
sponsored by DataDirect Networks
WHITE PAPER: Managing a high volume of servers is difficult and time consuming. Imagine scaling as fast as you need without expensive re-architecting. Discover a next-level solution that enables large-scale shared data clusters via an integrated SAN and...
Posted: 16 Jan 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2006
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The Reality Gap: How SAN Hype Ignores Real Customer Needs
sponsored by Vixel
WHITE PAPER: It's often hard to distinguish fact from fiction with SANs.
Posted: 16 Jun 2003 | Published: 01 Jan 2002
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INFINIBAND ARCHITECTURE DEFINITION (continued): …  Component Interconnect (PCI) shared-bus approach used in most of today's personal computers and servers. Offering throughput of up to 2.5 gigabytes per second and support for up to 64,000 addressable devices, the architecture also promises increased reliability, better sharing of data between clustered processors, and built-in security. InfiniBand is the result of merging two competing designs, Future I/O, developed by Compaq, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, with … 
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