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To: richard surckla who wrote (50985)	8/24/2000 1:06:41 AM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 93625

O.T.??? Intel Ramps Up Support For InfiniBand Architecture By Ken Popovich, eWEEK August 23, 2000 11:29 AM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Intel Corp. on Tuesday announced plans for three new silicon products as well as development kits to support InfiniBand, the new technology standard aimed at providing simpler and faster server-to-server and server-to-peripheral connections. The development of InfiniBand is backed by some of world's largest high-tech companies, which aim to develop an alternative to proprietary interconnects. The channel-based, switched fabric architecture is being designed to provide a scalable performance range of 500MB per second up to 6GB per second per link, which is far greater than the standard PCI (peripheral component interconnect) bus commonly used today. The demand for faster connectivity and the ability to more easily integrate servers and storage devices into systems has increased in recent years as Internet-tied businesses have come to rely on ever-increasing server and storage clusters. "InfiniBand architecture represents a great leap forward in Internet data center scalability," said Tom Macdonald, general manager of Intel's Fabric Component Division, here at the company's developer forum. "It will enable IT managers to easily increase and scale their server, information storage, communications and processing power needs." While widespread adoption of InfiniBand will likely take years -- due in part to recent advances in PCI architecture, known as PCI-X, as well as the costs associated with switching to a new architecture -- it is widely expected that most computing systems eventually will migrate to the new architecture. Intel is one of seven founding companies of the InfiniBand Trade Association, whose aim is to develop a new common I/O specification to deliver a channel-based, switched fabric technology that the entire industry can adopt. More than 170 companies have joined the ITA since its launch last year. In addition to Intel, ITA founding members include Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. The first specification for the new technology is scheduled to be released by late Oc-tober. The new Intel InfiniBand products are planned for use with future 32-bit processors, such as the Pentium 4-based Foster, as well as Intel's upcoming 64-bit Itanium. The new products are: InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter, which connects servers to the InfiniBand "fabric." InfiniBand Switch, which serves to connect servers to remote storage and networking devices. InfiniBand Target Channel Adapter, which provides the connection between storage and/or networking devices with an InfiniBand fabric. In addition to those products, Intel also announced enabling programs and tools to advance product development. They include: Port Logic Licensing Program, to enable silicon suppliers to license the same interface logic used in Intel's products. InfiniBand Target Transport Service Program, composed of a suite of software elements, such as Intel-developed code, that provide channel-adapter vendors access to the same software interfaces utilized by Intel. Product development kits, to be made available in early 2001, which will include host channel adapters and InfiniBand switch and supporting software.

To: richard surckla who wrote (50985)	8/24/2000 8:45:43 AM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

rsurckla, Someone posted this on RB. <G> ragingbull.altavista.com I think they missed what Eminian said. Bob Eminian, vice president of marketing for Samsung Semiconductor, said he expected Direct RDRAM to comprise about 15% of Samsung's DRAM unit shipments next year -- out of a total 300 million devices shipped by the market. Look at it this way, if 300 million units were 15% of Samsung's total DRAM shipments, their total would have to be 2 billion DRAM's.