London, UK -- Three leading communications and computing companies, Mellanox Technologies, SBS Technologies and SKY Computers, have teamed to establish the InfiniBand architecture as the standard interconnect fabric in embedded computing.
The companies have initiated an Embedded InfiniBand Subgroup within the InfiniBand Trade Association and will develop and drive a special interest group for embedded InifinBand within the VMEBus International Trade Association (VITA).
The announcement was made at the Bus&Board 2003 Conference taking place this week in Long Beach, California.
The special interest group (SIG) within VITA will champion the use of InfiniBand within embedded technology implementations. The SIG will collaborate on the implementation of InfiniBandspecifications, such as remote DMA and sockets direct protocol, that are important to the embedded community.
The group will also act as a communication channel reporting to appropriate standards organizations, such as the IBTA, on
the implementation of InfiniBand Architecture standards within embedded computing systems.
"InfiniBand should be well suited for embedded computing. The proposed collaboration under the umbrella of the IBTA and VITA is timely as we believe that, in the fairly near future, computing will become dominated by fabrics and high-speed interconnects," said Eric Gulliksen, embedded hardware program
director and analyst for Venture Development Corporation.
"The shared perspectives and skills embodied in these two groups will be extremely valuable in guiding technological development and driving acceptance in the marketplace."
Enrollment in both the IBTA subgroup and the VITA special interest group is open to additional corporate members.
