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May I ask what’s IB?
by godelmachine 8y ago
May I ask what’s IB?
- sacheendra 8y agoinfiniband - The high performance interconnect by Mellanox
- SEJeff 8y agoBy Voltaire, the infiniband company acquired by mellanox :) Their ethernet accelerator VMA stands for "Voltaire Messaging Accelerator".
- wmf 8y agoIIRC Mellanox was always doing Infiniband; they made the hardware and Voltaire wrote the drivers (before people understood open source and created OFED).
- SEJeff 8y agoMellanox made the HCAs (aka network cards) and Voltaire made the switches. Mellanox had their own drivers and their own MOFED (their incompatible fork of openfabrics upstream OFED with Mellanox specific enhancements).
- ams6110 8y agoWe just pulled a Voltaire switch from our data center. They definitely made hardware. Or at least put their name on it.
- patrickg_zill 8y agoInfiniband is actually a standard and Mellanox became the go to supplier. However in the early stages there were many more suppliers.
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- ckozlowski 8y agoInfiniBand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand