IBM talks about Infiniband chips. ibm talks about infiniband chips. This week at the Infiniband Developers Conference, IBM announced plans for its first three chips based on the Infiniband architecture designed to facilitate communication between systems as well as the clustering of servers and peripherals. This week at the Infiniband Developers Conference, IBM announced plans for its first three chips based on the Infiniband architecture designed to facilitate communication between systems as well as the clustering of servers and peripherals. IBM also said it will make its Infiniband technology part of its ASIC core library for custom chip development. The Infiniband Trade Association comprises more than 130 companies and Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq Computer, Dell Computer, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are on the steering committee....

For the last year, the Infiniband Trade Association has fought to agree on specifications for a new extremely highspeed I/O architecture to replace the aging PCI peripheral expansion bus standard. For the last year, the Infiniband Trade Association has fought to agree on specifications for a new extremely highspeed I/O architecture to replace the aging PCI peripheral expansion bus standard. Infiniband will increase bandwidth between servers and peripherals to multiple gigabytes per second by shifting control of I/O away from processors to intelligent I/0 engines known as channels. Chip makers have prepared for the final specs and many will announced Infiniband products in the near future....

Infiniband spec due Tuesday. infiniband spec due tuesday. The Infiniband Trade Association, a merger of two earlier groups of tech giants working on a networking standard for copper and fiber-optic cable, is releasing specification version 1.0 Tuesday, perhaps changing the way big server products look and operate forever. The Infiniband Trade Association, a merger of two earlier groups of tech giants working on a networking standard for copper and fiber-optic cable, is releasing specification version 1.0 Tuesday, perhaps changing the way big server products look and operate forever. One analyst says that Infiniband "allows you to build supercomputer, mainframe-class processing power out of a Lego-block kind of approach, instead of having just one giant piece of equipment."...

3Com to Develop InfiniBand Products. 3com to develop infiniband products. Ahh, the bus wars continue, but since nobody's calling it a war anymore and both HyperTransport and 3GIO both seem to continue to gather support, why shouldn't we figure that InfiniBand wouldn't still be on the playing field as well? Keeping the InfiniBand bus strategy in play, the Boys from Armonk announced that they would work with 3Com to integrate IBM's InfiniBand technology (called InfiniBlue) into future 3Com networking products. In case you hadn't heard, InfiniBand is high-speed common I/O standard that uses a channel-based switch fabric architecture and sports a claimed scaleable performance from 500 MegaBytes per second to 6 Gigabytes per second per link. The companies think InfiniBand will replace PCI and PCI-X bus-based technology....

InfiniBand Hot Swap Controller. infiniband hot swap controller. Intersil's new Endura ISL6160 is an integrated circuit (IC) hot swap controller for InfiniBand communications modules. Intersil's new Endura ISL6160 is an integrated circuit (IC) hot swap controller for InfiniBand communications modules. The company says the ISL6160 controls the flow of power to the InfiniBand communications module by providing protection from surges and allowing hot swapping of InfiniBand modules (without shutting the server or system down). The controller provides independent power control and soft starting ramps of both the VB (bulk, +12V) and the VA (auxiliary, +5V) power rails required for every InfiniBand module....

Banderacom's Single-Chip InfiniBand SoC. banderacoms single. Banderacom is of the InfiniBand persuasion and just told us about its new IBandit target channel adaptor (TCA) called BDC 22104, which is an InfiniBand system-on-a-chip. The IBandit TCA offers an integrated InfiniBand Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and four media access controllers (MACs) on a single chip that supports both 1X and 4X InfiniBand links for up to 10 gigabits per second of throughput, along with a 133 MHz PCI/PCI-X bus. The chip also includes an InfiniBand protocol engine that Banderacom says accelerates the performance of InfiniBand transport functions in the chip's hardware, for aggregate internal transaction switching throughput speeds of a whopping 150 gigabits per second. The BDC 22104 is optimized for InfiniBand target applications like bridging from InfiniBand devices to Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and TCP/IP devices, as well as I/O protocols such as Remote Network Device Interface Specification (RNDIS) and SCSI-over-RDMA Protocol (SRP)....

Intel steps back from InfiniBand. intel steps back from infiniband. Intel Corp doesn't want to develop Infiniband interconnect chips - due for launch in 2003 - anymore. Intel Corp doesn't want to develop Infiniband interconnect chips - due for launch in 2003 - anymore....

The year 2003 is shaping up to become an important period for InfiniBand, the much-touted but little-seen high-speed interconnect technology. The year 2003 is shaping up to become an important period for InfiniBand, the much-touted but little-seen high-speed interconnect technology. Despite setbacks earlier this year, when Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., two founding members of the InfiniBand Trade Association, backed away from InfiniBand development efforts, smaller InfiniBand vendors have recently launched enterprise-ready products, highlighted by Mellanox Technologies Inc., JNI Corp., Topspin Communications Inc. and Paceline Systems Corp. Even better, last week, top-tier server vendors Dell Computer Corp., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. said they will deploy InfiniBand-enabled products over the next couple of years, answering the call of industry observers who say InfiniBand won't take off until larger server vendors embrace the technology and drive it deep into the enterprise....

IBM, Voltaire Team on InfiniBand for DB2. ibm. Voltaire Inc. is offering users of IBM's DB2 database technology a way to run their transaction-heavy applications on cheaper, entry-level servers linked by InfiniBand interconnect technology rather than on larger - and more expensive - high-end systems....

InfiniCon Unveils InfiniBand Switching System. infinicon unveils infiniband switching system. InfiniCon Systems Inc. on Monday unveiled InfiniBand switching system that mirrors what users are seeing in the server and storage spaces : a lot of performance in a small form factor with the ability to pay for only what they use. InfiniCon’s InfinIO 3000 Switching Series offers up to 32 10Gbps InfiniBand ports in a 1U (1.75") rack that offers up to 640GB of throughput, said Charles Foley, CEO of the King of Prussia, Pa., company."...