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To: Mannie who wrote (25132)	5/22/2000 12:49:00 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 54805

WIND is a key player regarding InfiniBand... Wind River Networks: Transforming the Way Networking Products are Developed windriver.com To help make all this possible, Wind River is a major contributor to an industry initiative called I2O. This movement, in which Intel is another major contributor, has produced a specification that defines an architecture for intelligent I/O and related technologies such as InfiniBand. Wind River Networks offers key components that deliver on the promises of I2O, including the only I2O real time operating system (IRTOS), the IxWorks? IRTOS. System vendors and I/O subsystem manufacturers use an operating system and a toolkit developed by Wind River that is optimized for intelligent I/O applications. Together, this software helps networking equipment vendors create products that accelerate I/O functions in storage and network access.

To: Mannie who wrote (25132)	5/22/2000 8:32:00 AM
From: buck	Respond to of 54805

<Are EMC & NTAP pursuing a reinvention of themselves to address Infiniband?> Probably not. Their initial forays will involve using Infiniband internally in their products to speed data movement. That's most likely where bottlenecks exist. <in what time frame do you see Infiniband becoming the nearly universal standard?> The first Infiniband servers are set to ship in the fourth quarter of this year. Many vendors are working to make sure that there are things that will be able to use Infiniband connectivity, but externally most attachments will still be the same flavor they are today. The intention of Infiniband is to bust up the traffic jams inside the server or inside the device, in order to better utilize the processors and memory and such. It will be awhile before we have devices that have an Infiniband interface, simply because that's not where the pain is in storage today. buck