Obsidian is the maker of the Longbow family of products that enhance the capabilities of InfiniBand™.
Why InfiniBand?
Designed from the outset to minimize latency and simplify hardware, the InfiniBand Architecture yields improved performance and reduced cost compared to competing solutions. InfiniBand has been embraced by proven vendors including Sun, HP, IBM, QLogic, Mellanox and others. It is the interconnect of over a quarter of the top 500, four of the top ten, and the number one supercomputer in the world.
Why Longbow?
InfiniBand was designed for short-range connections within a chassis, cluster, or SAN. With Longbow InfiniBand Range Extension devices, connections can reach across the world. Now bulk data transfers, data replication for disaster recovery, and latency-sensitive applications can all use native InfiniBand to reap the cost and performance benefits.
Longbow technology has proven itself in some high-profile installations,
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