Editing InfiniBand (section)

{{Short description|Network standard}}
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|name           = InfiniBand Trade Association
|image          = InfiniBand Trade Association logo.jpg
|size= 160px 
|formation      = 1999
|type           = Industry trade group
|purpose        = Promoting InfiniBand
|headquarters   = [[Beaverton, Oregon]], U.S.
|membership     = 
|website        = {{URL|https://www.infinibandta.org/|infinibandta.org}}
}}{{Redirects here|IBTA|text=It could also refer to [[Ibotta]]'s [[ticker symbol]].}}
'''InfiniBand''' ('''IB''') is a computer networking communications standard used in [[high-performance computing]] that features very high [[throughput]] and very low [[Network latency|latency]]. It is used for data interconnect both among and within computers. InfiniBand is also used as either a direct or switched interconnect between servers and storage systems, as well as an interconnect between storage systems. It is designed to be [[scalability|scalable]] and uses a [[switched fabric]] [[network topology]].
Between 2014 and June 2016,<ref name="down">{{cite web |url= https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2016/06/highlights/ |title= Highlights– June 2016 |quote=InfiniBand technology is now found on 205 systems, down from 235 systems, and is now the second most-used internal system interconnect technology. Gigabit Ethernet has risen to 218 systems up from 182 systems, in large part thanks to 176 systems now using 10G interfaces. |date=June 2016 |publisher= Top500.Org |access-date= September 26, 2021 }}</ref> it was the most commonly used interconnect in the [[TOP500]] list of supercomputers.

[[Mellanox]] (acquired by [[Nvidia]]) manufactures InfiniBand [[host bus adapter]]s and [[network switch]]es, which are used by large computer system and database vendors in their product lines.<ref name="oracle">{{Cite web | url= http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/02/22/oracle-engineers-its-own-infiniband-interconnects/ |title = Oracle Engineers Its Own InfiniBand Interconnects |work= The Next Platform |author= Timothy Prickett Morgan |date= February 23, 2016 |access-date= September 26, 2021 }}</ref> 

As a computer cluster interconnect, IB competes with [[Ethernet]], [[Fibre Channel]], and Intel [[Omni-Path]]. The technology is promoted by the '''InfiniBand Trade Association'''.