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Ethernet and InfiniBand: Behind the interface


May 4, 2009

By PATRICK McLAUGHLIN, Chief Editor -- Communications connectivity protocols Ethernet and InfiniBand are being deployed in today's most demanding networks, while technologists work behind the scenes to standardize specifications for ever-faster transmission speeds. While InfiniBand has long considered itself a complementary technology to Ethernet, as well as Fibre Channel, among some user groups, the technologies are competitive alternatives.

The competition between the Ethernet and InfiniBand camps is playing out in multiple arenas -- today's active high performance computing environments and the research-and-testing laboratories in which the technologies' futures are taking shape.

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