InfiniBand set to replace PCI...

[NFS4]

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 &quot;fabric threads,&quot; 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

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

Thank god, something to kill off PCI.

 

[Adul]

WAHOO!

Will this kill off AGP?

 

[zippy]

Kill off PCI? Not likely, I'd think that this would most likely kill off AGP...if in fact it comes out within the next two years.

 

[NFS4]

Did AGP ever really &quot;kill&quot; PCI for graphics? I never really saw the big advantage of AGP anyway

 

[Pretender]

InfiniBand killed PCI with awp.

Signs you may be addicted to CS.

 

[Pretender]

<< Did AGP ever really &quot;kill&quot; PCI for graphics? I never really saw the big advantage of AGP anyway >>

Lets be honest, nothing really killed of anything. usb, ps2, agp, and ATA-100, roughly translated, all mean $.
&quot;Wow, your motherboard can do ATA100? That's amazing, despite the fact that few, if no drives can actually sustain that speed. Hey, why's it cost $30 extra? Well, uh, it can go faster, maybe not now, but sometime in the next 10 years hopefully, but by then I'll have a new motherboard and all different components so this purchase is essentially useless.&quot;

That was a rather vague rant, but I think it sums up my belief.

 

[GL]

Don't have time to read the article but someone please tell me this is an industry standard...i.e. it is not like Rambus.

-GL

 

[R0b0tN1k]

I'd like it better if it didn't have such a retarded names. What...can't anyone handle an acronym anymore?

 

[Methodical]

Sounds expensive

wont kill off PCI

standards die HARD.

Possibly see it in servers/workstations then a few years after that possibly in desktops

 

[bigjon]

I'm just surprised that some mobos are FINALLY doing away with ISA. That's been around forever, PCI will too

 

[Gunbuster]

&quot;so that our customers can ship products to data centers by the end of 2001.&quot;

&quot;fabric threads,&quot;


Sounds like it will make a good buddy for fibre channel= super expensive server stuff.