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Re: Anyone know of a good InfiniBand vendor in the US?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Landon Stewart)
Tue Feb 19 19:46:18 2013

In-Reply-To: <9137230821910144412@unknownmsgid>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:46:03 -0800
From: Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net>
To: Matt Addison <matt.addison@lists.evilgeni.us>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Oh by vendor I mean VAR I guess.  Mostly I'm also wondering how an IB
network handles IPoIB and how one uses IB with a gateway to layer 3
Ethernet switches or edge routers.  If anyone has any resources that
provide details on how this works and how ethernet VLANs are handled I'd
appreciate it.

On 19 February 2013 14:37, Matt Addison <matt.addison@lists.evilgeni.us>wrote:

> VAR or Manufacturer? Mellanox are essentially the defacto standard for
> IB switches and HCAs.
>
> Sent from my mobile device, so please excuse any horrible misspellings.
>
> On Feb 19, 2013, at 14:12, Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello NANOG,
> >
> > We are thinking of utilizing some InfiniBand stuff for some specific
> > application in our data centres.  We are new to InfiniBand however so we
> > want to get some equipment and see if it does what we need.  Does anyone
> > know of a good vendor in the US?  East or West coast, doesn't matter.  If
> > anyone has any good advice or information about InfiniBand that would be
> > nice to hear too as we are totally new to it at present.
> >
> > --
> > Landon Stewart <LStewart@Superb.Net>
> > Sr. Administrator
> > Systems Engineering
> > Superb Internet Corp - 888-354-6128 x 4199
> > Web hosting and more "Ahead of the Rest": http://www.superbhosting.net
>



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Landon Stewart <LStewart@Superb.Net>
Sr. Administrator
Systems Engineering
Superb Internet Corp - 888-354-6128 x 4199
Web hosting and more "Ahead of the Rest": http://www.superbhosting.net

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