Infiniband
InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link primarily used in high-performance computing. Its features include quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable. The InfiniBand architecture specification defines a connection between processor nodes and high performance I/O nodes such as storage devices. It is a superset of the Virtual Interface Architecture. (Source: Wikipedia)
For more information, see the section about Infiniband in the recent "Overview of Recent Supercomputers".
In June 2003, 1 systems appeared in the TOP500 list.
| Rank | System | Procs | Memory(GB) | Rmax (GFlops) | Rpeak (GFlops) | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 349 | Cluster Platform 6000 rx2600, Itanium2 900 MHz, Infiniband | 128 | N/A | 351 | 460.8 | HP |