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 2004, 10 systems appeared in the TOP500 list.
| Rank | System | Procs | Memory(GB) | Rmax (GFlops) | Rpeak (GFlops) | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 159 | Cluster Platform 3000 DL360G3 Xeon 3.06 GHz, Infiniband | 348 | N/A | 1401 | 2129.8 | HP |
| 160 |
Maverick xSeries x335 Cluster, Xeon 3.06 GHz, Infiniband |
384 | N/A | 1389 | 2350 | IBM |
| 213 |
Catalyst P4 Xeon 3.06 GHz, Infiniband |
256 | N/A | 1076 | 1566.72 | LNXI |
| 220 |
Orange Opteron 1.6 GHz, Infiniband |
512 | N/A | 1053 | 1638 | LNXI |
| 273 | P4 Xeon 2.4 GHz, Infiniband | 256 | N/A | 933.1 | 1228.8 | Advanced Computing |
| 278 | Opteron 2.0 GHz, Infiniband | 288 | N/A | 922.8 | 1152 | Appro |
| 293 |
Rose PowerEdge 1750, Pentium4 Xeon 3.06 GHz, Infiniband |
192 | N/A | 882 | 1175 | Dell |
| 372 | TS10000, P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, Infiniband4x | 192 | N/A | 749 | 1075.2 | Langchao |
| 431 | Cluster Platform 6000 rx2600 Itanium2 1.5 GHz, Infiniband | 128 | N/A | 683 | 768 | HP |
| 432 | Cluster Platform 6000 rx2600 Itanium2 1.5 GHz, Infiniband | 128 | N/A | 683 | 768 | HP |