Mellanox Adapter Card Supports Both 40 Gbps InfiniBand and 10 GigE
Mellanox Technologies released a new ConnectX-2 Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) adapter card, providing fabric flexibility with InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity.
The ConnectX-2 VPI adapter card includes both a 40Gb/s InfiniBand QSFP port and a 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ port, and enables users with both technologies, in a dense solution, to save server real-estate, reduce power consumption and consolidate their networking infrastructure.
Mellanox said the ConnectX-2 delivers up to 30% less power consumption than its predecessor. http://www.mellanox.com
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You just read about InfiniBand. Here is what it replaced:
Quadrics QsNet served 1996–2009. What ultimately replaced it?
Quadrics QsNet a fat-tree HPC network with a programmable NIC that offloaded remote-memory (RDMA-style) operations, giving very low latency plus hardware barrier and collective support for supercomputers. Its job passed to InfiniBand — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
