Denise Jarrett-Weeks2025-06-16T16:32:33+00:00June 16, 2025|
The InfiniBand® Trade Association’s (IBTA) RDMA networking specifications continues to see massive success and adoption in the HPC market, including InfiniBand and RoCE-based Ethernet. According to the June 2025 TOP500 list, these technologies power 357 systems, accounting for 71% of the world’s top supercomputers. InfiniBand alone accelerates a record high of 271 [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2024-12-04T01:08:29+00:00December 4, 2024|
RoCE Breaks into the Top50 of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) continues to shape the future of high-performance computing (HPC) through its RDMA networking technologies, including InfiniBand and Ethernet RoCE. In the November 2024 TOP500 list, these technologies power 365 systems—73% of the world’s top supercomputers. InfiniBand accelerates [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2024-07-19T01:18:59+00:00July 17, 2024|
Open, industry-standard RDMA specifications have ignited the era of AI It's incredible to think that 25 years have passed since the inception of the InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA). Established in August 1999 by industry leaders, the IBTA created a clear and accessible interconnect architecture standard to provide a highly efficient, high-performance, scalable [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2024-06-25T22:07:32+00:00June 25, 2024|
The build-out of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) data centers is increasing capital intensity and changing how all customers build data centers. Networking for back-end and front-end networks plays a crucial role in maximizing the capabilities of these new data centers. Data Center CAPEX will likely double as AI/ML becomes [...]
Tim2021-04-23T04:50:17+00:00April 23, 2021|
The IBTA Expands Testing to Include Non-member Ethernet Switches and Validates Speeds up to 400G Ethernet and InfiniBand networks have moved to speeds of 400Gb/s, and we'll see this number double in the coming years. Data center architects face ever-increasing demands to adopt these faster speeds as organizations transform vast amounts of [...]
Tim2020-09-09T17:44:43+00:00September 9, 2020|
IBTA Releases Updated InfiniBand and RoCE Integrators List of Interoperable and Compliant Devices Demand for High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud infrastructures for compute and data intensive applications continues to grow while answering the call for faster interconnects to transfer massive amounts of data between servers and between servers and [...]
IBTA Admin2020-05-05T21:37:12+00:00April 21, 2020|
By Bill Lee The ever-increasing need for higher performance in the world of supercomputing demands interconnect solutions provide continuously faster speeds, lower latency and advanced telemetry and configuration options. The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) continues to meet these industry demands by providing enhancements to InfiniBand scalability and optimization. With the public availability [...]
Bill Lee2020-05-05T21:38:00+00:00March 25, 2020|
By Rupert Dance This past October, the IBTA held Plugfest 36 at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). The products that passed Compliance and Interoperability testing during this plugfest have been published in the latest versions of the InfiniBand Combined Cable and Device Integrators’ List and the RoCE Integrators’ List. These extensive [...]
Bill Lee2019-12-12T16:25:05+00:00December 11, 2019|
By Bill Lee The 54th edition of the TOP500 List, a ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, was released this November, showcasing InfiniBand’s ever-growing presence on the List. The IBTA is pleased to share that HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand is now accelerating 31 percent of new InfiniBand-based systems on the List, including the [...]
Rupert Dance2020-05-05T21:38:42+00:00November 25, 2019|
By Rupert Dance This past April, the IBTA’s Plugfest 35 became the first event to both test and verify HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand products, opening the door for high performance compute (HPC) systems to achieve new levels of speed and performance. This event, held at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), [...]
