Ciscohas launched a gateway switch
that boosts the performance of applications that run on
InfiniBand-clustered servers and network-attached storage and Fibre
Channel based storage devices.
Cisco Server Fabric Switch (SFS) 3504 can aggregate server
traffic on 20Gbps InfiniBand links and distribute it to storage
devices on Ethernet and
Fibre Channel networks.
As opposed to installing a Fibre Channel host channel adapter in
each server in the cluster so it can connect directly to the Fibre
Channel storage-area network, each server connects via InfiniBand
to the SFS 3504.
The SFS 3504 switches this aggregated traffic to the SAN via
4Gbps Fibre Channel ports and is an upgrade from 2Gbps Fibre
Channel ports on the SFS 3012.