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Whither Infiniband?

Back in the 1990s when the original PCI I/O bus was getting a bit long in the tooth, two disparate groups of vendors proposed solutions to the problem. Compaq, IBM and Hewlett-Packard championed a standard called Future I/O, while Intel, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems pushed a competing technology called Next Generation I/O. In an unusual act of solidarity, the two groups got together, compromised on their differences, and came up with a jointly developed technology called Infiniband.

In simple terms, Infiniband is a switched I/O channel that connects processors to other processors and high-speed peripherals like … Read more

Linksys delivers a PowerLine network

It's a little ironic, don't you think, that with all the push for wireless this and wireless that, we're suddenly awash in PowerLine Ethernet adapters? One of Linksys' announcements at CES yesterday was for the HomePlug AV-compliant PowerLine AV Ethernet Kit (PLK200), which includes two Linksys PowerLine AV Ethernet Adapters (PLE200).

Setting up a PowerLine Ethernet network is one of the simplest ways to create a network capable of throughput fast enough to transfer high-definition data--such as video--smoothly. Simply plug in your first adapter to your router via an Ethernet cable and then plug it into an … Read more