| Pushing InfiniBand as a superior replacement to Ethernet in data
centres and storage farms, Mellanox Technologies is offering new
devices for the space.
The company is now shipping 20 gigabit per second (Gbit/s) and
60Gbit/s InfiniBand adapters and switch silicon that offer DDR
interconnect at a price of less than 30 per cent than 10Gbit/s
InfiniBand, officials at Mellanox said.
“InfiniBand DDR enables unification of computing and
storage onto a single fabric,” said Thad Omura, director of
product marketing at Mellanox. “And you are able to reduce
not only the cost of storage, but also the cost of managing
storage.”
The new devices in the form of silicon and PCI Express cards and
switch silicon support 20Gbit/s server to server and server to
storage connectivity and 60Gbit/s switch to switch I/O connections
over a single copper cable – effectively offering twice the
bandwidth of current InfiniBand products and up to 10 times the
price/performance of competing interconnects, Mellanox officials
said.
The production availability of InfiniBand DDR solutions signals
a new era of clustered computing and storage performance,”
said Eyal Waldman, president and CEO. “20Gbit/s and 60Gbit/s
I/O technology is in lock-step with emerging multi-core CPU server
architectures and widely deployed PCI Express in-the-box
interconnect.”
Intel recently quoted figures suggesting that InfiniBand over
PCI Express has three times the bandwidth of InfiniBand over
standard PCI.
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