According to IDC research, high-performance computing (HPC), scale-out database environments, shared and virtualized I/O, and increasing demand from financial applications with HPC-like characteristics are driving the rapid adoption InfiniBand ¹.
InfiniBand is seeing continued growth on the Top500 list, which serves as a precursor to commercial HPC adoption. For the November 2008 list, InfiniBand was used by more than a quarter (28%) of the Top500 sites, including the #1 supercomputer.
¹ according to IDC’s “Worldwide InfiniBand 2007-2011 Forecast,” Doc # 211375, January 2008
InfiniBand Market Momentum