About InfiniBand
InfiniBand is an exceptionally high-speed, scalable and efficient I/O technology that accelerates system performance allowing users to do much more with less computing resources. This not only increases productivity but also saves capital expense, data center space, and power consumption.
InfiniBand’s industry-standard ecosystem creates cost-effective hardware
and software solutions that easily scale from generation to generation. With
the largest installed base of 10 and 20Gb/s ports in the market (with 40Gb/s
appearing this year), InfiniBand is delivering real world benefits in data
centers, high-performance clusters, storage devices, and embedded
applications.
Enterprise vertical applications, such as customer relationship management, database, financial services, insurance services, retail, virtualization, and web services are demanding the leading I/O performance offered by InfiniBand to optimize data center productivity. InfiniBand is also a key enabler in high-performance applications such as bioscience and drug research, data mining, digital rendering, electronic design automation, fluid dynamics, and weather analysis.