3GIO (aka third-generation I/O, aka Arapahoe), on the other hand, serves a very different purpose. It provides a serial connection between the components inside the server and is supposedly much faster than PCI-X, the latest I/O interconnect, at doing this.
Speeding up the communication between the components on the board dovetails with InfiniBand, which speeds up communication between servers. It means that the computing side of the data center should eventually keep up with the networking side, which is critical for storage networking, which is where the two come together, says Dan Tanner, analyst with the Aberdeen Group.
InfiniBand provides a box-to-box connection with shared I/O resources, but it can also provide slots inside boxes which is where the confusion comes in, says Roger Tipley, chairman and president of the PCI-SIG (special interest group). Intel realized it needed something more specific than InfiniBand for I/O and came up with Arapahoe.
PCI replacement is an old spin on InfiniBand," says Tipley. "Intel needs to drop this one now, he adds.
PCI-SIG has been brought in by the so-called Arapahoe Work Group to help promote and support the proposed 3GIO standard -- repeating what it's already done for PCI (see Heavyweights Back PCI Successor). The Arapahoe Work Group originally comprised Intel, Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ), Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL), IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM), and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT). Last week, a further 22 vendors joined PCI Successor Gets Industry Backing).
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