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InfiniBand rockets up Top 500 supercomputer list
Nov. 19, 2009
InfiniBand-based clusters account for 182 of the top 500 supercomputers and half of the top 10.

QLogic provides InfiniBand for HPC environments
Nov. 18, 2009
QLogic announced this week that this month that its QDR InfiniBand adapters have been chosen by IBM, Dell and HP for high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Specifically, IBM will integrate QLogic's 7300 Series ...

Clemson's computational colossus
Oct. 19, 2009
Peer inside one of the country's premiere university computational research centers and what will you find inside?

Data center switch scales to 648 40G ports
Jun. 22, 2009
Mellanox Technologies is shipping a large-scale switch that scales from 36 40Gbps InfiniBand ports to 648 ports in a single enclosure.

New DoS attacks threaten wireless; Voltaire takes on Cisco Nexus
Jun. 08, 2009
New DoS attacks threaten wireless; Voltaire takes on Cisco Nexus

Mellanox woos data centers with 40Gbps Infiniband
Feb. 18, 2009
InfiniBand stalwart Mellanox wants data centers to adopt 40Gbps InfiniBand as their primary high-speed converged network fabric. To help them it has introduced a family of devices capable of bridging it to both 10Gbps ...

Voltaire unleashes 40Gbps data center switch
Feb. 10, 2009
Voltaire this week announced a 40Gbps InfiniBand switch switch for data centers that's designed to provide a low latency fabric for large, high-performance clusters.

Is Fibre Channel over Ethernet the only way to a converged data center?
Jan. 26, 2009
Some data-center experts say iSCSI and InfiniBand are just as good, if not better, than Fibre Channel over Ethernet for converging data and storage networks.

InfiniBand vendor Voltaire files to go public
Jul. 26, 2007
InfiniBand vendor Voltaire has filed to go public.

InfiniBand finds its calling
Dec. 02, 2008
InfiniBand, it appears, has finally found its place as the de-facto interconnect for high-performance computing environments - that is if you believe the noise vendors are making about the interconnect that now has been ...

QLogic adds InfiniBand switch, own ASIC
Nov. 25, 2008
QLogic added breath to the InfiniBand platform last week with the launch of the QLogic 12000 Series switch - the second product to use its TrueScale ASIC platform.

Some of fastest supercomputers use InfiniBand
Nov. 20, 2008
Over the summer I highlighted the fact that Gigabit Ethernet was being used in many of the world's fastest supercomputers. This week, Mellanox points to the latest list of supercomputers and highlights the growth in ...

Gigabit Ethernet powers computer clusters
Jun. 27, 2008
Gigabit Ethernet as a means to connect devices in data centers and storage facilities has earned another proof point -- a computing cluster in Germany that is linked by Gigabit Ethernet and that has ranked number 58 ...

IBM mainframe adds Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand links
May. 07, 2008
Ten weeks after unveiling the System z10 mainframe, IBM announced new Gigabit Ethernet hardware for LAN connectivity and new InfiniBand coupling links.

Vendors readying InfiniBand switches
Apr. 05, 2004
InfiniBand switch vendors Topspin Communications and Voltaire today are expected to announce switches that expand their product lines to support bigger clustered systems. The companies say the moves will breathe new ...

100Gb Ethernet, and Beyond | NetworkWorld.com Community
Aug. 12, 2009
Ramifications of the all-100Gb Ethernet network.

Buzz 2001: InfiniBand set to give PCI the boot, 09/24/01
Sep. 24, 2001
Call it the elixir for one of the last network bottlenecks. InfiniBand, the next evolution in PC I/O architecture, is poised to overthrow PCI as the de facto standard for servers. But despite growing credibility, the ...

A rival lists Cisco's top 5 worst technology moves | NetworkWorld.com Community
Mar. 24, 2009

New switch upgrades Cisco high-end server-to-storage computing
Nov. 14, 2007
Cisco is introducing a gateway switch that boosts the performance of applications that rely on interactions between InfiniBand-clustered servers and network-attached storage- and Fibre Channel-based storage devices.

InfiniBand start-up launches three products for clustered computing
Nov. 13, 2007
A start-up in Austin Texas last week rolled out three storage appliances designed to interconnect clusters and improve performance.

Cisco helps speed up Oracle 11g
Nov. 13, 2007
Cisco did its part for Oracle users as the OpenWorld conference opened Monday, announcing a protocol it developed with the software company for running Oracle databases over larger server clusters.

Sun shoots for the stars with Constellation HPC
Nov. 12, 2007
Sun is shipping its new Constellation high-performance computing product, marking a return to the HPC market it had left in the late 1990s to serve the growing dot-com market. Sun hope the Constellation warrants ...

Xsigo launches I/O virtualization product
Sep. 10, 2007
Start-up Xsigo Systems launched the Xsigo VP780 I/O Director, which is an I/O virtualization appliance that reduces server connectivity bottlenecks by replacing cabling and network and storage interfaces with virtual ...

Cisco airs server management appliance
Jul. 25, 2007
Cisco introduced an appliance that lets servers be provisioned off storage on the network.

Wall Street's need for speed in spotlight at SIFMA Conference
Jun. 19, 2007
SIFMA Conference puts spotlight on Wall Street's need for speed.