- Oct 9, 1999
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Hmmm, screw you PCI-X
<< InfiniBand, which relies on a switched fabric-based architecture, will provide a scalable throughput performance range of 500MB per second up to 6GB per second.
More specifically, a single InfiniBand link operates at 250MB per second point-to-point in a single direction, but since each link consists of a pair of "fabric threads," with one dedicated to input and another dedicated to output, the total throughput is measured at 500MB per second.
Bandwidth can be further increased by adding more links, or channels. Currently, development plans are under way for four-channel InfiniBand, offering 2GB-per-second throughput, and 12-channel InfiniBand, offering 6GB-per-second throughput. >>
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2644419,00.html
<< InfiniBand, which relies on a switched fabric-based architecture, will provide a scalable throughput performance range of 500MB per second up to 6GB per second.
More specifically, a single InfiniBand link operates at 250MB per second point-to-point in a single direction, but since each link consists of a pair of "fabric threads," with one dedicated to input and another dedicated to output, the total throughput is measured at 500MB per second.
Bandwidth can be further increased by adding more links, or channels. Currently, development plans are under way for four-channel InfiniBand, offering 2GB-per-second throughput, and 12-channel InfiniBand, offering 6GB-per-second throughput. >>
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2644419,00.html