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InfiniBand is a type of communications link for data flow between processors and
I/O devices that offers
throughput of up to 2.5 gigabytes per second and support for up to 64,000
addressable devices. Because it is also scalable and supports
quality of service (QoS) and failover, InfiniBand is often used as a server
connect in high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
The internal data flow system in most PCs and server systems is inflexible and
relatively slow. As the amount of data coming into and flowing
between components in the computer increases, the existing bus system becomes a
bottleneck.
Instead of sending data in parallel (typically 32 bits at a time, but in some
computers 64 bits) across the backplane bus,
InfiniBand specifies a serial (bit-at-a-time) bus. Fewer pins and other electrical
connections are required, saving
manufacturing cost and improving reliability. The serial bus can carry multiple
channels of data at the same time
in a multiplexing signal. InfiniBand also supports multiple memory areas, each of
which can addressed by both processors and storage devices.
The InfiniBand Trade Association views the bus itself as a switch because control
information determines the
route a given message follows in getting to its destination address. InfiniBand
uses Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), which enables an almost limitless amount
of device expansion.
The InfiniBand specification was developed by merging two competing designs, Future
I/O, developed by Compaq, IBM,
and Hewlett-Packard, with Next Generation I/O, developed by Intel, Microsoft, and
Sun Microsystems.
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