Linux InfiniBand Stack Based on OpenIB

For the past year and a half, Voltaire has led the Department of Energy - funded OpenIB PatchForward project and has been a contributor to the success of OpenIB's inclusion in the Linux kernel. They have contributed code and engineering resources and Voltaire engineers serve as maintainers of the OpenIB code.

Today, Voltaire announced the availability of a new Voltaire InfiniBand Linux software stack based on OpenIB. This is the first commercial software stack based on OpenIB's current open source technology.

Voltaire is optimistic about the future of open-source InfiniBand technology. "We believe open source InfiniBand is critical to the widespread adoption of the technology for server, network, and storage networking and virtualization in enterprise grid and high performance computing applications," said Asaf Somekh, director of marketing for Voltaire. "Now, independent software vendors can test and certify their applications on a single software stack that is available through the standard Linux distributions."

"More and more businesses are adopting InfiniBand for their large cluster and grid computing environments because of the tremendous performance benefits the technology delivers to leading commercial applications used in a broad range of industries," commented Bill Boas, vice chairman and founding member of the Open InfiniBand Alliance.

The GridStack technology preview release will be available to select Voltaire customers and partners.