Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: InfiniBand BOF @ LSM - topics of interest | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Date | 15 May 2002 09:34:34 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 22:01, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> The thing about Infiniband is that its scope is so great. > If you consider Infiniband was only a glorified PCI with serial > connector, the congestion control is not an issue. Credits > are quite sufficient to provide per link flow control, and > everything would work nicely with a couple of switches. > Such was the original plan, anyways, but somehow cluster > ninjas managed to hijack the spec and we have the rabid > overengineering running amok. In fact, they ran so far > that Intel jumped ship and created PCI Express, and we > have discussions about congestion control. Sad, really... > > -- Pete > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This sounds like deja vu all over again. Each new interconnect technology like ATM seems to go through the cycle:
Assert: all other network protocols are crap Deny: history Assert: our problem is different, therefore we must reinvent everything from data transfer up to applications
Reality strikes!
New technology ends up being used with standard applications and protocols.
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