Speaking metaphorically, the blast area of a datacenter should only be so large, for mechanical as well as technical reasons, in order to mitigate the risk of a failure taking out too many machines. …
InfiniBand was always supposed to be a mainstream fabric to be used across PCs, servers, storage, and networks, but the effort collapsed and the remains of the InfiniBand effort found a second life at the turn of the millennium as a high performance, low latency interconnect for supercomputers running simulations and models. …
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