DPDK is great because it means telling to the customer "you keep your network, j...

Galanwe · on June 17, 2015

...Except it's dead.

InfiniBand was the way to go 5/10 years ago, when 10G Ethernet was not there.

Nowadays, most of companies that invested in IB years ago are stuck with a dead infrastructure. It costs a lot, there is very little knowledge about the techno, and most support for it is dropping (e.g. glusterfs). Sad truth is most of these old IB infra are now used for IPoIB ...

Source: been working in HFT firms implementing IB RDMA, then GBEth RDMA, now proprietary NIC RDMA

shin_lao · on June 17, 2015

We've seen InfiniBand in HPC, it's true none of our customers in finance has it.