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Using InfiniBand for High Performance Computing

Overview With business models constantly changing to keep pace with nowadays Internet-based, global economy, IT organizations are continually challenged to provide customers with high performance platforms while controlling their cost. With broader adoption of High Performance Computing (HPC) in various industry segments, more enterprise businesses are implementing parallel compute cluster architectures to provide a cost-effective approach for scalable, HPC platforms. InfiniBand is one of the most important technologies that enable the adoption of cluster computing. This technology brief describes InfiniBand as an interconnect technology used in cluster computing, provides basic technical information, and explains the advantages of implementing the InfiniBand architecture.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues, High Performance Computing

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