TOP500 List Results: InfiniBand Powers World’s Top Three Fastest Supercomputers, RoCE’s Impact Continues to Grow

The 52nd edition of the TOP500 List, a ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, was released this past November. Once again, the List highlights that InfiniBand is the top choice for the most powerful and advanced supercomputers in the world, including the reigning #1 system - Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Summit. The TOP500 List results not only report that [...]

By |December 19, 2018|

TOP500 List Results: InfiniBand Powers World’s Fastest Supercomputer, RoCE Gaining Traction

The latest results of the TOP500 List, which ranks the world’s fastest supercomputers, have been released for the first half of 2018. The IBTA is excited to highlight that Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit system, the new most powerful supercomputer in the world, is accelerated by InfiniBand EDR. InfiniBand powers the top three and four of the top five systems. [...]

By |August 7, 2018|

2018 Edition of RoCE Deployment Guide Now Available

The IBTA through its RoCE Initiative is proud to announce the second edition of the RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Deployment Guide, a technical resource to supplement the IBTA’s RoCE educational program. The second edition of the RoCE Deployment Guide reflects both a growing industry interest in RoCE technology’s network acceleration capabilities as well as the increasing number of RoCE-capable [...]

By |August 2, 2018|

InfiniBand Leads the TOP500 List, is Preferred Fabric of Leading AI and Deep Learning Systems

  The latest iteration of the bi-annual TOP500 List reveals that InfiniBand not only powers the world’s first and fourth fastest supercomputers, but it is also the preferred interconnect for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning systems. Furthermore, the latest results show InfiniBand continues to be the most used high-speed interconnect in the TOP500, reinforcing its status as the industry’s [...]

By |December 7, 2017|

11 Myths about RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)

Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is a well-known technology at the heart of the world’s fastest supercomputers and largest data centers. RDMA first became widely adopted in the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry with InfiniBand, but is now being leveraged by cloud, storage and enterprise Ethernet networks with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). While RoCE technology is in high demand [...]

New Online RoCE Product Directory Now Available

The RoCE Initiative is excited to announce the launch of the online RoCE Product Directory, the latest technical resource to supplement the IBTA’s RoCE educational program. The new online resource is intended to inform CIOs and enterprise data center architects about their options for deploying RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology within their Ethernet infrastructure. The directory is comprised of [...]

By |May 24, 2017|

The Advantages of RoCE for Next Generation Data Centers

Processing massive amounts of data in real time for demanding applications – such as big data analytics, cloud transactions and IoT – continues to be a challenge for the IT industry. High speed networks at 25, 50, and 100 Gb/s, combined with the rise of faster SSDs and new non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies have addressed performance bottlenecks at the I/O [...]

By |January 26, 2017|

Breaking Through the New Storage Bottleneck

The transition from Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) to Solid State Drives (SSDs) is one of the most significant storage trends occurring in the industry today. This major shift is happening for two important reasons: Even though HDD-based systems have lower upfront costs, the inevitable breakdown due their moving parts (motors, heads, etc.) results in higher Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). [...]

By |November 30, 2016|

RDMA Interconnects Paving the Way for NVMe over Fabrics Technology

NVM Express (NVMe) technology is quickly being recognized as an innovative, high performance interface for solid-state drives (SSDs) as well as newer persistent memory solutions. NVM Express, Inc.developed the standard to define a new storage interface protocol that optimized non-volatile memory storage system performance, namely in PCIe-based SSDs. At its core, NVMe helps eliminate the data throughput and latency bottlenecks within [...]