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SubjectRE: InfiniBand BOF @ LSM - topics of interest
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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...
>


It's clear from this email thread that there is a lot of
confusion about the intended use of InfiniBand and it's
benefits. I'll take that as a need to prepare some material
for the Linux SymposiuM BOF that shows some of
the benefits of InfiniBand as demonstrated on the early
InfiniBand hardware.



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