Infiniband

Infiniband Products

Then there's Infiniband, offering four times the speed of already-speedy

Ethernet, at lower cost.

InfiniBand - Derived from "infinite bandwidth." A switched-fabric I/O      technology that ties together servers, storage devices and network devices, easing the bottlenecks created by data-intensive files such as streaming video, voice and audio.

Unlike Ethernet, however, Infiniband doesn't prefer to communicate with top-heavy servers running on a Windows OS. Shunning the mass market in favor primarily of high- end performance shops, Infiniband likes Unix or Linux equipment. Implemented with high-speed data storage and processing, it provides unprecedented performance for high-speed computation.

HP supports 40Gbps 4x Quad Data Rate (QDR) and 20Gbps 4X Double Data Rate (DDR) InfiniBand products that include mezzanine Host Channel Adapters (HCA) for server blades, switch blades for c-Class enclosures, and rack switches and cables for building scale-out solutions.

The following InfiniBand products based on QLogic technology are available for the HP BladeSystem c-Class from HP:

583210-B21 QLogic 4X QDR IB Dual Port Mezz HCA--------$1295

505958-B21 QLogic BLc 4X QDR IB Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class---- $11,995

9024-CU24-ST2-DDR Qlogic 24-Port InfiniBand DDR Switch---$6495

QLE7280-CK QLogic Single Port 20Gb InfiniBand to x16 PCIe Adapter-- $675