Messages in this thread | | | From | "Woodruff, Robert J" <> | Subject | RE: InfiniBand BOF @ LSM - topics of interest | Date | Wed, 15 May 2002 13:37:02 -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... >
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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