Analyst Reports Confirm InfiniBand Growth; According to Tabor Research, 60 Percent of HPC Systems Shipped Since 2007 Use the High-Speed Interconnect.InfiniBand[R] Trade Association (IBTA IBTA InfiniBand Trade Association IBTA Instituto Brasileiro de Tecnologia Avançada IBTA Instituto Boliviano de Tecnologia Agropecuaria IBTA International Business Travel Association IBTA International Business Training Association ) also announces highest InfiniBand vendor attendance and product submissions for most recent Plugfest event LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- The InfiniBand[R] Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand specification, today released results from three analyst reports, demonstrating the continued market growth of InfiniBand products in the HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. and data center server and storage markets. The reports were published by IDC, Tabor Research and the Taneja Group. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Addison Snell, GM of Tabor Research, InfiniBand is the clear leader in all new HPC shipments. A March 2009 Tabor Research report, "InfiniBand: Increases in Speed, Usage, Competition" said, "60 percent of surveyed HPC systems installed since the start of 2007 use InfiniBand as a system interconnect. Among those systems, over 30 percent also use InfiniBand for a LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. or storage interconnect." In addition, the report highlights increased demand for InfiniBand among customers consolidating their I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output fabrics. "HPC-using organizations that are considering converged fabric strategies are more likely to consolidate on InfiniBand than Ethernet." InfiniBand implemented in - and driving - data center applications InfiniBand, due to its performance and latency benefits, has been implemented in and is now driving today's mission-critical, data center applications, such as Oracle database on top of the HP Oracle Database Machine. The HP Oracle Database Machine is a complete InfiniBand-connected server and storage system providing over 10x data base query performance. A new IDC Analyst Connection1, also released today and titled, "InfiniBand: Poised for Market Growth," included comments on InfiniBand and the push for a "Unified Wire" infrastructure within future data centers: "InfiniBand already possesses the attributes needed to successfully implement unified wire infrastructures including, compliance with standards, highly secured lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. fabric, high bandwidth, and low latency Low latency allows human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output providing real time characteristics. This can be especially important for internet connections utilizing services such as online gaming and VOIP - VOIP is not as important as ," said Jie Wu, research manager, High Performance Computing at IDC. "Among the benefits envisioned for these future infrastructures are simplified administration, higher application and storage performance, and lower total cost of ownership." InfiniBand is the only true unified wire solution shipping in volume today with approximately 5 million 10-40Gbps ports total to date. Meeting the needs of multi-core and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. According to IDC, "Advances in multicore technology, the proliferation of virtualization in commercial data centers and the emergence of cloud computing all create new requirements for a more efficient network infrastructure. Today, in addition to delivering high bandwidth and low latency, InfiniBand offers a number of new features including improved scalability, I/O consolidations/simplicity, and improved price/performance." The demand for even greater performance is driven by multi-core processor-based systems and is demonstrated by deployments of 40Gbps Quad Data Rate Quad data rate (or quad pumping) is a communication signalling technique wherein data is transmitted at both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal, much the same way DDR technology works, but with two clock signals 90° out of phase from each other, effectively InfiniBand adapters. While InfiniBand greatly outperforms gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand's broad industry support, maturity and choice of products make it more affordable than unproven 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions. Jeff Boles commented, "when compared to a single 40Gbps QDR QDR Quadrennial Defense Review (US DoD) QDR Quad Data Rate (Memory Technology) QDR Quality Deficiency Report QDR Quality, Durability and Reliability (Toyota Motor Company) InfiniBand fabric, traditional fabrics can more than double what it costs to operate and manage the IO behind the virtual server infrastructure." Cloud computing: a new market with strong I/O requirements InfiniBand's price/performance benefits extend to another cluster growth segment, cloud computing. The Taneja Group reported that web services firms are moving to InfiniBand to consolidate interfaces and obtain better management capabilities. "InfiniBand simplifies management, and brings better than SAN-like capabilities to every I/O interface, while reducing the number of interfaces. For this reason, we see external service providers building InfiniBand infrastructures today." According to IDC, InfiniBand's high bandwidth, low latency and scalability characteristics help meet the mixed workload requirements in the cloud Refers to the operation taking place within a network. See cloud. . Jie Wu commented that "InfiniBand could play an important role in helping broaden cloud adoption, starting at sites that already employ InfiniBand." Plugfest Momentum The InfiniBand Trade Association's 15th Compliance and Interoperability Plugfest took place last month with record vendor attendance and product submissions, showcasing the ever-expanding InfiniBand ecosystem. The April event hosted 21 participating InfiniBand vendors that were testing more than 200 devices - double the number of devices tested in March 2008. Products that successfully pass the Plugfest testing gain inclusion on the IBTA Integrators' List. The Integrators' List has steadily grown since October 2007 and now includes more than 160 devices. The latest Integrator's List may be viewed at: http://www.infinibandta.org/itinfo/IL/. About the InfiniBand Trade Association The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is the standards organization that defines and maintains the InfiniBand specification. It is an industry consortium. The IBTA was established in 1999, and its most prominent members include Cisco, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, QLogic, Sun and The InfiniBand Trade Association was founded in 1999 and is chartered with maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand specification. The IBTA is led by a distinguished steering committee that includes IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Mellanox, QLogic, Sun and Voltaire. Other members of the IBTA represent leading enterprise IT vendors who are actively contributing to the advancement of the InfiniBand specification. The IBTA markets and promotes InfiniBand from an industry perspective through public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most engagements and unites the industry through IBTA-sponsored developer conferences and workshops. For more information on the IBTA, visit www.infinibandta.org. InfiniBand (TM/SM) is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand Trade Association. Other names and brands are the property of their respective owners. 1 IDC Analyst Connection, Infiniband: Poised for Market Growth, Doc # 784 May 2009 http://idcdocserv.com/784. |
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