Below is an extract from an interesting article on the Register by Timothy Prickett Morgan regarding Liquid Computing and their decision to embrace 10 Gigabit Ethernet:
"It is a testament to the architecture that you can switch out the communications system and not touch the architecture," says Miller. And like many others, Miller sees 10 Gigabit Ethernet moving ahead "at a breakneck pace" and InfiniBand being relegated to a protocol for HPC clusters, "even though some people are trying to make a go of it as a unified fabric." If InfiniBand can't get established in the data center, IQInterconnect, no matter how slick, had even less of a chance.
SO, in the meantime, if you need to buy a 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch (24, 32, 48, 96 ports?) go and check Quadrics website, last November Quadrics announced $300 per-port price tag for its 24-Port CX4 10Gbps Ethernet Switch.
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