The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology.
The three-year project will support programmers at chipmaker Intel and InfiniBand equipment makers Voltaire and Topspin Communications, the department said Tuesday at the SC2004 supercomputing conference in Pittsburgh. The programmers' work will aid the OpenIB Alliance, an effort to create open-source InfiniBand support.
InfiniBand can be used to connect large numbers of servers to each other into a high-performance technical computing cluster; it's the plumbing for the world's second-fastest supercomputer today, Silicon Graphics Inc.'s Colubia. The networking technology also can connect those cluster elements to storage devices.
However, support for InfiniBand hardware currently relies on a number of proprietary and sometimes functionally different drivers from InfiniBand equipment makers, a fact that complicates the widespread use of Linux in such clusters. The OpenIB Alliance, which includes the four major InfiniBand hardware makers, is trying to build a single open-source driver that will become part of the standard Linux kernel.
News source: C|Net
The three-year project will support programmers at chipmaker Intel and InfiniBand equipment makers Voltaire and Topspin Communications, the department said Tuesday at the SC2004 supercomputing conference in Pittsburgh. The programmers' work will aid the OpenIB Alliance, an effort to create open-source InfiniBand support.
InfiniBand can be used to connect large numbers of servers to each other into a high-performance technical computing cluster; it's the plumbing for the world's second-fastest supercomputer today, Silicon Graphics Inc.'s Colubia. The networking technology also can connect those cluster elements to storage devices.
However, support for InfiniBand hardware currently relies on a number of proprietary and sometimes functionally different drivers from InfiniBand equipment makers, a fact that complicates the widespread use of Linux in such clusters. The OpenIB Alliance, which includes the four major InfiniBand hardware makers, is trying to build a single open-source driver that will become part of the standard Linux kernel.
News source: C|Net
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Ben Goodger has updated his Blog with some interesting stuff concerning the 1.0 release. Read the whole entry here.
This day has come a lot later than any of us originally planned, but that's the way software goes. I've learned a lot about a huge number of things in the process, have had the opportunity to talk to a lot of different people about their experiences with the software, etc. It's been a long road but we're finally here. No software is perfect, we did not fix every bug, implement every feature, but what we did do was create what we believe to be the best browser around. I want to thank you all again for the support over the past few years.
We also asked Ben what the progress was after 1.0 :
"After 1.0 we plan to resync our development work with the Mozilla trunk so that we can immediately pick up the great work that's been going on with Gecko since we've been away, continue our HIG compliance efforts for MacOS X, improve existing systems and plan for the next major release. The first interim release will be 1.1 in or around March 2005. ".
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