[Infiniband-general] intro/questions

[Travis G. <tg...@ke...>]

I am trying to learn more about InfiniBand. Especially as it pertains 
to Linux. I see InfiniBand often mentioned w.r.t. clusters. My company 
does NOT build clusters per se, but we do produce food processing 
machines with between 7 and 11 processors running Linux or uClinux. 
Currently we link them together via both ethernet and ieee1394. I'm 
always trying to keep my eyes open for new ways of linking these 
processors efficiently together.

Is this list a good place to keep track of the Linux InfiniBand efforts?

How alive is this project? I noticed not much traffic in the last month 
or two.

How alive is even InfiniBand itself? Google'ing reveals lots trade 
brochures and such, but that's hard to get a feel. One of the other 
guys in the office looking at this had gotten the indication that 
InfiniBand had lost some steam in the last year.

One thing I don't get a feel for, is what services InfiniBand offers to 
me the software developer. Obviously there'll be a TCP/IP thing on top 
of it. Are there other APIs I can use? We make heavy use of ieee1394's 
isochronous streams for our real time data stuff, does InfiniBand 
provide anything like this?

TIA

--
Travis Griggs
Objologist
"It had better be a pretty good meeting, to be better than no meeting
at all" -- Boyd K Packer


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