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I think for general-purpose workloads, it's not relevant. However, some of the IB-specific capabilities like RDMA are extremely interesting for clustering use
by mattzito 12y ago
I think for general-purpose workloads, it's not relevant. However, some of the IB-specific capabilities like RDMA are extremely interesting for clustering use cases. You can dramatically reduce the overhead of moving data around between nodes by bypassing the kernel entirely.
- reportingsjr 12y agoI understand that sort of use case, but this article is asking about desktop computers. It almost seems like the author only sees it used in high performance situations so clearly it is better for all situations.
- spitfire 12y agothunderbolt and the predecessor firewire both have rdma.