InfiniBand has been making remarkable progress in HPC, as evidenced by its growth in the Top500 rankings of the highest performing computers. It already plays an important role at the petascale. But what role will InfiniBand play as we move closer to exascale systems?
In this article, Lloyd Dickman, CTO for InfiniBand Products in QLogic’s Network Solutions Group, and an active member of the InfiniBand Trade Association, presents an interesting perspective of InfiniBand today — and as part of exascale development.