Mellanox Says Infiniband Continues to Grow
Mellanox Technologies reported Q4 sales of $221.7 million and $857.5 million in fiscal year 2016. GAAP gross margins were 66.8 ...
In Focus: Infiniband
🌐 InfiniBand High-Performance Networking Fabric for AI and HPC Clusters | |
| InfiniBand is a high-performance networking technology used to connect servers, GPUs, storage systems and accelerators in AI training clusters, supercomputers and high-performance computing environments. Known for low latency, high throughput and native RDMA support, InfiniBand remains a major fabric for tightly coupled compute workloads. | |
| Why It Matters | Large AI training systems require fast, predictable communication across thousands of GPUs. InfiniBand provides a mature, purpose-built fabric for scale-out compute, helping reduce communication overhead and improve accelerator utilization in demanding AI and HPC deployments. |
| Category | Networking Technology |
| Typical Deployment | AI training clusters • HPC supercomputers • GPU fabrics • Research computing • Large-scale simulation |
| Key Capabilities | Native RDMA • Low latency • High throughput • Adaptive routing • Congestion control • Collective communication support • Scale-out GPU networking |
| Topics Covered | AI Infrastructure • GPU Networking • High-Performance Computing • RDMA • Supercomputing • Scale-Out AI • Data Center Fabrics |
| Key Companies | Dell Technologies • HPE • Lenovo • NVIDIA • Supermicro |
| Related Technologies | RDMA • RoCE • Ethernet • Ultra Ethernet • AI Infrastructure |
| Standards & Industry Groups | InfiniBand Trade Association |
Mellanox Introduces InfiniBand Router
Mellanox Technologies introduced a new line of InfiniBand router systems based on its Switch-IB switch ASIC and aimed at next ...
Mellanox Supplies100G InfiniBand for European Supercomputer Center
The Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) in Belgium has selected Mellanox’s end-to-end 100Gb/s EDR interconnect solutions to be integrated into a ...
Mellanox Intros 100Gbps InfiniBand Switch
Mellanox Technologies introduced its next generation InfiniBand switch for High-Performance Computing, Web 2.0, database and cloud data centers. The Mellanox ...
Qualcomm Samples 24-core Server Chip based on ARMv8-A
Qualcomm has begun sampling a 24-core SoC based on the ARMv8-A instruction set and built using advanced FinFet technology. The ...
Crehan: Strong Rebound for Data Center Ethernet Switch Market
The data center Ethernet switch market posted strong growth in the second quarter of 2015, according to a recent report ...
InfiniBand Trade Association Tests RDMA over Converged Ethernet
The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has conducted the first Plugfest for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) solutions. ifteen member companies ...
Mellanox Supplies End-to-End EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand to KTH Royal Institute
Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology has selected Mellanox Technologies to supply its end-to-end, EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions for use ...
Intel Shows its Omni-Path Architecture for HPC
Intel conducted the first public "powered-on" demonstration of its Omni-Path Architecture, a next-generation fabric technology for high performance computing (HPC) ...
New RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Initiative Gets Underway
A new RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Initiative has been launched by the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) to raise awareness ...
Blueprint: InfiniBand Moves from SuperComputing to Cloud
By: Dr. David Southwell, CVO, Obsidian Strategics Some technology found inside modern supercomputers may prove to be surprisingly applicable to ...
Mellanox Intros Programmable Network Adapter with FPGA
Mellanox Technologies introduced its Programmable ConnectX-3 Pro adapter card with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) technology and aimed at modern data ...
100G InfiniBand Connects Supercomputers across Continents
Obsidian Strategics and Singapore's A*STAR Computational Resource Centre are pioneering long-distance, 100G InfiniBand as a means of interconnecting geographically distributed ...
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