One of the places we see InifniBand is as one of the technologies that enable people to modularize their data center infrastructure, he says.
He said for that to happen, InfiniBand will have to get into the market and prove itself, and robust management software will have to become available. The process could be a long one. Any shift in the market takes years to work out, ffoulkes says.
Topspin, which has been more OEM-centric than InfiniCon and Voltaire, will probably have its switches shipping with IBM products late this year or early next year. InfiniCon and Voltaire have concentrated on HPC applications. Today InfiniCon announced that Penn State University
and the AMD Developer Center have chosen its switches for high-performance computing clusters. Voltaire announced Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) (NYSE: SGI) Professional services will sell Voltaire InfiniBand products with SGI Altix servers; and Sandia National Laboratories
picked Voltaire products to power its 128-node HPC cluster (see SGI, Sandia Pick Voltaire InfiniBand).
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