InfiniBand hasn't caught on widely, despite the ambitions of its designers, but it is used to connect servers into high-performance compute clusters and to link machines that jointly house large databases. "Where severs in close proximity have to move a lot of data really quickly and with low latency (communication delays), that's a good fit for InfiniBand,"
Infiniband
Ethernet piggybacks on InfiniBand chip
Submitted by nestorb on Tue, 2007-04-03 17:50.
