Hello, Paul.
-=> PAUL WILLIAMS wrote to ALL <=-

 PW> Hi All, hope you are having a nice day

Been tol'able so far, thank'ee.

 PW>  Guy down the street seems to be cleaning out his mess of 'puter stuff
 PW> and has a pretty big pile out on the street. (jim would have fun i'll
 PW> bet what w/ all the mini and mid tower cases that're out there)

You'd best grab anything that looks like an ATX case, in hopes of
eventually upgrading yourself beyond antiquated AT stuff from 1995 or
so. For desktop, yer knockin' on a decade behind the times, laddie.


But, hey, I'll tell you like "she who must be obeyed" tells me alla time
- - you're supposed to be getting rid of this computer junk (in your
case, before your impending move to the great state of Jawja), not
dumpster-diving and dragging more and more of this kinda junk in all the
time. 


 PW>  Anyhow I picked up a 1U rackmount device of some sorts which has at
 PW> least 2 ethernet ports in back plus a pair that I don't recognize which
 PW> look sorta like a cross 'tween a usb-a and rj-45 The cover was off the
 PW> top so I do know it has another rj-45 on the main board at the front
 PW> which may be for a terminal to set it up. It has a dimm slot inside as
 PW> well but it was gone so I don't know what size it needs.
 PW>  Marking on the front top left are
 PW>  Ethernet-InfiniBand Platform
 PW>  www.omegaband.com



Internet search here indicates Omegaband was based in Austin, TX.  They
ceased operations in 12/02 and filed Chapter 7 in 3/03.

 PW>  My guess is it's either a firewall or something to go between a
 PW> highspeed line like a T1 or frac-T1 and a router/hub but dunno
 PW> for sure.

Whuzzat?

I looked briefly on internet about Infiniband.  I guess that's still
alive.  Here's a release about Omegaband, from back in happier days.  I
don't understand about half of what I think I know about what they are
saying, so don't you be asking me any questions about this - . - -

  "OmegaBand Announces First InfiniBand Edge Product
  Network Storage Forum Staff
  08/31/2001
  This article can be found online at the following location:
  http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/874601

  "OmegaBand, Inc. this week confirmed that its first product
  incorporates InfiniBand technology and is used as a gateway to the
  Ethernet network in a data center environment. The product, named
  IBgate 1000, was shown in a working environment at the Intel Developer
  Forum today.

  "We are InfiniBand System Area Network pioneers, fully engaged with
  other InfiniBand companies to bring together all the pieces," Mayur
  Mehta, company co-founder, said, "this new generation of InfiniBand
  products will allow almost infinite scalability, provide flexible
  management, and move data-transfer performance to new levels."

  "OmegaBand's first product, IBgate 1000, is an InfiniBand-to-Gigabit-
  Ethernet (GbE) gateway product, connecting multiple InfiniBand servers
  to multiple GbE ports. This first-generation product will, the company
  claims, provide the connections from a cluster of servers running a
  distributed application to the Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN) or to
  Network Attached Storage (NAS.) IBgate 1000 will be available to
  customers in the fall.

  "InfiniBand architecture is a channel-based, switched-fabric
  interconnect technology defined to provide very high bandwidth I/O
  connectivity among servers, and to remote storage and networking.
  It will provide greater availability, scalability and reliability
  for server I/O subsystems. The InfiniBand(SM) Trade Association was
  formed in late 1999 by seven of industry's largest companies to
  define a new I/O solution. The association updated its initial
  specification with version 1.0a in June 2001."

I did find one more clear writeup about InfiniBand, but the doggone
Internet site wouldn't let me save the file, just let me email it, and
all that came thru was an URL.

Good luck - - -  JimH.

... Roadkill?! Heck, Jim, lets go back- that critter is still _alive_ -Bubba
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