Engenio plans to demonstrate at the Supercomputing 2004 conference in Pittsburgh in November the first generation of Infiniband Linux software in its arrays used in so-called high-performance computing clusters. It will take about 18 months before a more robust Linux implementation suitable for commercial database clusters is ready, said Stan Skelton, Engenio's director of strategic planning.
Skelton said all of Engenio's RAID and storage array products currently use Fibre Channel interconnects. However, he expects a growing portion of the company's high-end arrays will move to Infiniband for big technical and commercial applications.
The chief executives of Infiniband chip and systems companies agreed at this spring's Intel Developer Forum to cooperate on Linux software implementations, said Pappas.
"When we looked at the Infiniband software stacks, there was a lot of divergence of implementations, and that was not the best thing for driving the adoption of the technology," he said.
The Infiniband implementation under Linux will be available under a standard open source license. "We expect several hardware and software platform companies will use this software once it becomes available," Pappas said.
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