InfiniBand Continues Leadership on TOP500 with 17 Percent Growth; 39th InfiniBand and RoCE Plugfest Bring Record Turnout
06 July 2022 - 1:55AM
Business Wire
The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization
dedicated to developing and furthering the adoption of RDMA
technologies, today announced that InfiniBand grew 17 percent
year-over-year, connecting 197 systems on the June 2022 TOP500
supercomputing list. InfiniBand also connects 62 of the Top100,
making it the most used high-speed interconnect of the world’s top
supercomputers.
InfiniBand’s prominent presence on the TOP500 is indicative of
its ability to provide the speed, low latency and scalability that
the world’s top systems require. Leveraging Remote Direct Memory
Access (RDMA) fabrics such as InfiniBand and RDMA over Converged
Ethernet (RoCE) also offers data centers reliability, efficiency,
and a highly interoperable environment for these systems to
expand.
“InfiniBand’s increased growth on the TOP500 and leadership on
the Top100 is due to InfiniBand’s efficiency, scalability and
fastest networking speeds that meet the industry’s demand for
enhanced system and application performance,” said Brian Sparks,
marketing working group chair for the IBTA. “Products are now
becoming available which follow the IBTA’s NDR 400Gb/s InfiniBand
specification, and we look forward to seeing them represented in
future TOP500 lists.”
Published twice a year and publicly available at www.top500.org,
the TOP500 list ranks the world's most powerful computer systems
according to the Linpack benchmark rating system.
Record Turnout for 39th InfiniBand and RoCE Plugfest,
Featuring NDR 400Gb/s InfiniBand and 400GbE
This year’s IBTA Plugfest was the first testing instance of NDR
400Gb/s InfiniBand and 400GbE products, paving the way for the
roll-out of the fastest interconnected systems in 2022. The event,
hosted by University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab
(UNH-IOL) and in partnership with the Ethernet Alliance, provided
the opportunity to perform interoperability testing of selected
RDMA/RoCE-based Ethernet switch systems, adapter, NICS, and cables
among a range of vendors.
Key highlights from the InfiniBand and RoCE Plugfest:
- RDMA Cable Vendors: Amphenol, CONNPRO, NVIDIA, Panduit,
The Siemon Company, TE Connectivity
- RDMA Device Vendors: Arista, Broadcom, NVIDIA and
SANBlaze
- Test Equipment Vendors: Anritsu, Keysight, Rohde &
Schwarz and Wilder Technologies
- 15 RDMA devices were tested for compliance and
interoperability
- 141 RDMA cables were tested for compliance and
interoperability. Copper and optical cable types included SFP,
QSFP, QSFP-DD, OSFP and hybrids
- Keysight deployed a new NDR InfiniBand solution for testing
400Gb/s Active Optical Cables
“The IBTA’s rigorous, independent third-party compliance and
interoperability program ensures that each cable and device tested
successfully meets end user needs and expectations of InfiniBand
and RoCE ecosystems,” said Rupert Dance, chair of the IBTA
compliance and interoperability working group. “The ability of IBTA
Plugfest participants to interact with engineers from many device
and cable vendors and test equipment providers while resolving
problems in real time is essential to the success, compliance and
interoperability of all InfiniBand and RoCE solutions.”
The IBTA Plugfest is an invaluable benefit to members and
creates a clear path to deliver to their customers products that
are compliant to the InfiniBand and RoCE specifications and
interoperable within the larger ecosystem. Each product that
completes compliance and interoperability testing is compiled into
the resulting InfiniBand Integrators’ List and RoCE Integrators’
List. The lists are technical resources that provide immense
benefits to all end users deploying RDMA-based fabrics. A wide
range of customers leverage these results when determining which
products to use when designing or upgrading their systems.
About the InfiniBand® Trade Association
The InfiniBand® Trade Association was founded in 1999 and is
chartered with maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand and the
RoCE specifications. The IBTA is led by a distinguished steering
committee that includes HPE, IBM, Intel Corporation and NVIDIA.
Other members of the IBTA represent leading enterprise IT vendors
who are actively contributing to the advancement of the InfiniBand
and RoCE specifications. The IBTA markets and promotes InfiniBand
and RoCE from an industry perspective through online, marketing and
public relations engagements, and unites the industry through
IBTA-sponsored technical events and resources. For more information
on the IBTA, visit www.infinibandta.org.
InfiniBand (TM/SM) and RoCE are trademark and service marks of
the IBTA. Other names and brands are the property of their
respective owners.
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Denise Jarrett-Weeks IBTA Administrator InfiniBand Trade
Association Phone: 503.619.0565 administration@infinibandta.org