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November 17, 2008
Wide-Area Performance Profiling of 10GigE and InfiniBand Technologies

... throughput of 7.48Gbps is achieved using Longbow XR devices on the local connection. The throughput only decreased to 7.47Gbps for 1400 mile connection and to 7.34Gbps for 8600 mile connection ... throughput measurements were very stable. more

September 8, 2008
Performance of HPC Middleware over InfiniBand WAN

... our results have demonstrated the feasibility of utilizing long-haul IB WAN technology as an inter-cluster interconnect more

July 17, 2007
Comparative Performance Analysis of Obsidian Longbow InfiniBand Range-Extension Technology

... the Longbows demonstrated that they were capable of high wirespeed efficiency: over 97% of theoretical throughput was achieved with TTCP/SDP, over 96% for MPI, and over 96% for iSCSI. more

July 17, 2007
InfiniBand in the Data Center

Presentation at the Summer 2007 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop more

March 25, 2007
Experimental Evaluation of InfiniBand Transport over Local and Wide-Area Networks

InfiniBand throughput of 7.6Gbps scales to 8,000 miles with 5% degradation with no customization over 10Gbps wide-area connections. more

July 26, 2006
Long Haul InfiniBand Technology: Implications for Cluster Computing

The Obsidian Longbow offers an effective high-bandwidth, low latency method of linking InfiniBand networks over long haul networks. more