Obsidian is the maker of the Longbow family of products that enhance the capabilities of InfiniBand™, an industry-standard architecture for computer system interconnect.
Why InfiniBand?
Designed from the outset to minimize latency and simplify hardware, the InfiniBand Architecture yields improved performance and reduced cost compared to competing solutions. The most demanding interconnect users are those in the high performance market and they are increasingly choosing InfiniBand which now dominates the top 500 list of supercomputers in the world.
Why Longbow?
InfiniBand was designed for short-range connections within a chassis, cluster, or SAN. With Longbow InfiniBand Range Extension devices, connections can reach across the world. Now bulk data transfers, data replication for disaster recovery, and latency-sensitive applications can all use native InfiniBand to reap the cost and performance benefits.
Longbow technology has proven itself in some high-profile installations,
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