Talk:InfiniBand

message: Although they are not meant for system bus or internal paths, they include features like e.g. direct memory access and can externally connect devices with such capabilities. They can also encapsulate USB  or PCIE transports.
Therefore I think that they should be included in summary sections below the article or paragraphs texts, just to get complex (and unbiased) overview of computer communication links.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ldx1 (talk • contribs) 19:33, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technologies based on DisplayPort such as DockPort or Thunderbold, capable of hispeed serial transport, not even mentioned 

message: The first two paragraphs of the "Unified Fabrics for High Performance Computing" section sound like blatant advertising.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.69.131.15 (talk) 23:56, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality of Unified Fabrics for High Performance Computing 

message: It seems to me that we need to find a better expression for what Infiniband really is.
Is it:
- a switched fabric communications link  (current version of the article, 22 September 2006);
- a switched fabric computer bus architecture  (revision as of 15:39, 28 August 2006);
- a point-to-point high-speed switch fabric interconnect architecture  (as of 00:21, 22 August 2006);  or
- a high-speed serial computer bus  (as of 21:12, 19 June 2006)?
I would say Infiniband is not "a bus", but also not "a link". "Arhitecture" is definitely better than "link", IMHO. How about "technology"? "Protocol"?  "Network"?  "Communication protocol"? "Serial network data transmission technology"? (just brainstorming)
Please comment. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Salsus (talk • contribs) 
:How about a "computer network technology" or "computer network architecture"? -- intgr 18:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is Infiniband, anyway? 

message: AFAIK, the host channel adapter (HCA) term is unique to InfiniBand (as is target channel adapter (TCA)) so it probably doesn't make sense to have a separate encyclopedia entry for either.
13:59, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no HCA article to merge with at the moment. I'm deleting the "suggested merge" tag. Alvestrand 10:02, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Host Channel Adapter 

message: Can the orignial author change the sentence in the top paragraph containing: "In the past 12 months (...)"? I have no idea when the article was written, but maybe it should better be something like 'Since 2001, all major vendors are selling (...)". Mipmip 18:32, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline? 

message: The initial paragraph seems to be copied exactly from "http://www.mellanox.com/company/infiniband.php". In fact, the whole article sounds very much as though it was written by an InfiniBand salesman (apologies if this suspection is wrong). The information about the companies doesn't belong here in my opinion. It also doesn't mention similar competing technologies. I added the "Advert" tag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.246.7.12 (talk • contribs) 
If you look down through the history you'll see that various discussions of how InfiniBand relates to other technologies and challenges it faces have been deleted. Got tired of fighting with this one.
Ghaff 23:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like many offending edits have been done here: . The IP address 63.251.237.3 belongs to "Mellanox Technologies, Inc." so they obviously had an agenda. I'll revert these changes now, and I'd be happy to give a hand removing any future POV edits. I can't see any obvious fights (as you put it) in the history, though. -- intgr 08:49, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyrighted Content? / Neutrality 

message: Nice to see a history section, but it seems a little short on dates.  Did the events take place in the late 20th century, or some other time?
I couldn't agree more, technology related articles HAVE to be dated.85.250.148.1 (talk) 12:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: It seems like we are on the verge of a boom in the use of InfiniBand, especially in the fast-growing high-performance computing arena.  I don't have time to edit the Wikipedia article right now, but here are some references that could be used...
http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb052907-story03.html
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=124888&WT.svl=news2_1
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS20701607
Westwind273 18:17, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: An InfiniBand Boom?

message: I don't understand how a point-to-point connection can be switched fabric. Please explain it! --213.130.252.119 (talk) 08:10, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switched Fabric 

message: The following snippet from the Infiniband article is factually incorrect:
"In another example of InfiniBand use within high performance computing, the Cray XD1 uses built-in Mellanox InfiniBand switches to create a fabric between HyperTransport-connected Opteron-based compute nodes."
The RapidArray router ASIC in the Cray XD1, originally called the OctigaBay 12K, is completely proprietary, originally developed by OctigaBay of Canada before the company was acquired by Cray Inc.  The technology in the ASIC has its roots in high performance packet switching ASICs used in the telecom industry, from which both of the key venture partners, the CIO and CEO, had long employment histories.  
Neither RapidArray nor the XD1 system contains Infiniband technology, nor Mellanox Technology.  In fact the signaling rate of the RapidArray interconnect links is many times that of Infiniband, and the packet latency much lower.
See:  http://www.arsc.edu/news/archive/fpga/Tue-1130-Woods.pdf
and   http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/DESAI%20ASHISH.pdf?ucin1141333144
Hardwarefreak (talk) 10:27, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I tracked down that this text was added by the user Ghaff (thanks to WikiBlame). I have invited him to this discussion, but I don't know whether he is active on Wikipedia anymore. -- intgr [talk] 10:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cray XD1/Mellanox misinformation 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The InfiniBand article is not too long that this cannot all be in one article. I don't feel that the topic stands on it's own as notable. Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 17:01, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Ethernet over InfiniBand]] 

message: > 2016: Oracle Corporation manufactures its own InfiniBand interconnect chips and switch units.
The linked article says that Oracle is using Mellanox chips. Greg (talk) 05:01, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment about Oracle in 2016 is incorrect