[geeks] Jesus this guy could be me

[Chris Byrne]

It's the "new" interconnect protocol/transport that Intel is pushing to
replace... Well everything really.

The ide is that it is a universal high speed data interconnect. It's a
multichannel packet switching interconnect topology, currently specced
at up to 30Gb/sec and a 17m cabling limit for copper, or multi km limit
for fiber. 

Intels vision is that every major system component will be connected
directly through infiniband, replacing all current peripheral
interconnects including PCI, AGP, SCSI, USB, Firewire etc...
Initially it will be used for mass storage controllers and similar
devices. I know there were some inifiniband products announced last year
but I don't think there are any in the wild as of yet. 


Heres the officail faq which isnt very good
http://www.infinibandta.org/specs/faq/





> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Bjorn Ramqvist
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 23:17
> To: The Geeks List
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Jesus this guy could be me
> 
> 
> "Joshua D. Boyd" wrote:
> > 
> > And, BTW, the guy mentioned they were moving to Infiniband. 
>  The lowest
> > level of infiniband is 500mbits faster than the fastest myrinet.  I
> > don't know what the overhead is like for infiniband though.
> 
> Anyone care to explain infiniband?
> I'm curious, since I've heard it before...
> 
> /Bjorn
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