The Cisco SFS 7008 InfiniBand Server Switch provides a new class of data center infrastructure that interconnects discreet server resources together into a high performance 10Gbps, low-latency fabric. It brings many of the mainframe "backplane" technologies to commodity servers, including Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) for transmitting large amount of data with very little overhead, as well as very low latency (<4 usec user-space latency). These technologies enable commodity servers to be combined into effective high-performance clusters and grids, creating the kind of collective performance required for enabling the trend towards commoditization.