Trinetra is an interconnect developed in India for HPC as an indigenous alternative to InfiniBand. I associate it with C-DAC, but I’m not really sure who all makes it.

It is a switchless fabric that composes into meshes and toruses. NICs come in two flavors:

  • 6x100G
  • 10x200G

Its primary interface is libfabric. It does not natively support TCP or verbs, so C-DAC added verbs emulation in 2026 to enable its use with kverbs (for Lustre support).1

Footnotes

  1. See Yogeshwar’s talk at the 2026 IXPUG workshop at ISC’26. The workshop name was called something other than IXPUG though.