[Info-vax] State of the Port - July 2017

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2017-07-20 23:44:23 +0000, Kerry Main said:

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>> If VSI does decide to go after HPC with OpenVMS, then maybe we see 
>> Infiniband support added.   But Ethernet is ubiquitous.
>> 
>> And yes, Infiniband is interesting, and clustering over Ethernet RDMA 
>> (iWARP) might well be patterned after the Memory Channel work, but 
>> there's a bunch of stuff in the queue ahead of iWARP and Infiniband.
>> 
> 
> The big advantages with Infiniband and ROCEv2 is not only large 
> bandwidth, but much, much lower latency which of course is perfect for 
> cluster communications.

First stage is getting the E working, stable, and faster, and on faster 
E hardware.


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