Infiniband

[neilsie]

Hi all,

is anyone using Infiniband? i'm not quite at the max bandwidth for GB Ether, but its possible. Aside from possible compatibility issues with the rest of the infrastructure matrix, i need to examine its use.

so, has anyone any working experiences, especially with RedHat, mutli-node clusters and Oracle RAC?

ta!

[3200ac]

google (or altavista) is your friend here - search on oracle and infiniband and you'll get references to a stack of white papers, such as

"Achieving Mainframe-Class Performance on Intel Servers Using InfiniBand Building Blocks"

"Department of Defense To Use Voltaire Grid Backbone™ Solutions in HP Supercomputer"

Voltaire are prominent in this field, and provide lots of good info