[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Leading InfiniBand companies and organizations have banded
together to form OpenIB Alliance, an industry association with the
mission of delivering an open-source Linux-based software stack for
deploying InfiniBand architecture.“InfiniBand is a channel-based, switch-fabric architecture. At
first, starting in 2000, its proponents pushed it as a system
bus/network bus network replacement for everything from PCI to
Fibre Channel. The technology found it rough going though with
questions about whether major OEMs would support it well into
2003…”