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SC05 - Consortium demonstrates long-distance InfiniBand

16.11.2005
An IT industry organization that includes leading IT vendors such as Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. said Tuesday it has successfully demonstrated extended computing capabilities using InfiniBand technology. The demonstration was part of the SCinet conference in Seattle.

The OpenIB Alliance, an industry association chartered to create a single, open-source Linux- and Windows-based software stack for deploying InfiniBand, said it transmitted data at 10Gbit/sec. over a 50-mile distance from Intel's data center in DuPont, Wash., to the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

The demonstration linked servers and storage systems via switches and optical service platforms over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing or Sonet OC-192.

Also included in the demonstration were the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Naval Research Laboratory, Obsidian Research Corp. and Qwest Communications International Inc.

Through an industry alliance, OpenIB supplies open-source InfiniBand software, which can be used for high-performance computing, grid and enterprise data center backbones, and networking.

The demonstration involved applications that could be used over long-distance InfiniBand, including remote data center replication, high-performance interfaces to a WAN for InfiniBand-based clusters and supercomputers, grid computing, and campus and metro InfiniBand storage.