As has been said already, there are two rnics running with the Open Fabrics stack, the Ammasso 1100 and the Chelsio CXGB3 rnics. Tom Tucker and I are the maintainers of this code base (the iwarp branch).
I hear NetEffect also has an 10Gb iWARP NIC. As far as I know, they don't have any support for the Open Fabrics iwarp branch yet. Steve. On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 12:14 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > Ian Brown wrote: > > Thanks all. > > I indeed fround that > > http://www.ammasso.com/ responds with > > "There is no website configured at this address." > > while > > http://www.chelsio.com/ > > does exist. > > > > Is there a reason why manufacturers will refrain from > > producing RDMA ? (I mean , are there better technologies > > which are a substitute for RDMA for ethernet ?) > > Regards, > > IB > > > I kind of think that the market is too small to support > a company making a card that is at best just slightly cheaper > than things like Infiniband, and Myrinet, and is actually > slower than the Infiniband and Myrinet. > > Consider how many cards one has to sell to pay a single > engineers salary when you are at best making $100-$150 a > card over production costs. The numbers don't look that > good to me, and consider that previous to Ammasso and Chelsio > there have been a long string of companies producing accelerated > nitch network cards of various types (going back as far as the > early 90's), and all of them have failed to get enough > market share to stay in business. About the only thing > that makes one of these companies viable is being bought > out by someone large enough to support the needed funding. > > Level 5 is making accelerated ethernet cards, I believe most > of the acceleration is in software in some manner (kernel bypass), > and I don't know if their card could be made to do rdma. > > Roger > _______________________________________________ > openib-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
