InfiniBand

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InfiniBand is a high-speed, low-latency communications standard commonly used as the interconnect fabric in supercomputers and large-scale data centers.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf communications standard
computer network technology
high-speed interconnect
interconnect fabric
abbreviation IB
addressingScheme globally unique identifiers
local identifiers
canCarry IP over InfiniBand
MPI traffic
storage protocols
competesWith Ethernet
NVLink (for some use cases)
linked to: PCI Express

Omni-Path
designedFor cluster computing
data center interconnects
high-performance computing
governedBy InfiniBand Architecture Specification
linked to: InfiniBand
hasComponent InfiniBand router
InfiniBand switch
host channel adapter
target channel adapter
hasGeneration Double Data Rate
Enhanced Data Rate
Fourteen Data Rate
HDR200
High Data Rate
NDR
Quad Data Rate
Single Data Rate
XDR
keyProperty high bandwidth
low latency
remote direct memory access support
layerModel link layer
network layer
transport layer
majorVendor HPE (via switches and adapters)
Intel (historically)
linked to: Intel Corporation

Mellanox Technologies
NVIDIA
linked to: NVIDIA Corporation
managementInterface Subnet Administration
Subnet Manager
physicalMedium copper cable
optical fiber
reliabilityMechanism end-to-end acknowledgments
end-to-end credit-based flow control
link-level retransmission
standardizedBy InfiniBand Trade Association
supportsFeature RDMA
adaptive routing
collective offload (SHARP on some implementations)
hardware-based reliability
kernel bypass
link-level flow control
multicast
partitioning
quality of service
virtual lanes
zero-copy networking
supportsLinkWidth 12X
1X
4X
8X
supportsSpeedClass DDR
EDR
FDR
HDR
NDR
QDR
SDR
XDR
supportsTopology point-to-point connection
switched fabric
supportsTransport raw datagram
reliable connection
reliable datagram
unreliable connection
unreliable datagram
supportsVirtualization SR-IOV
multi-host adapters
usedAs system area network
usedFor AI and machine learning clusters
database clustering
distributed storage systems
low-latency trading infrastructure
message passing interface applications
usedIn HPC clusters
cloud computing infrastructure
large-scale data centers
storage networks
supercomputers

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Pleiades interconnect InfiniBand
subject linked to: Pleiades supercomputer
InfiniBand governedBy InfiniBand Architecture Specification
linked to: InfiniBand
Mellanox Technologies technology InfiniBand
Solaris supports InfiniBand
subject linked to: Solaris operating system
InfiniBand Trade Association standardizes InfiniBand architecture
linked to: InfiniBand
InfiniBand Trade Association produces InfiniBand architecture specifications
linked to: InfiniBand
InfiniBand Trade Association promotes InfiniBand adoption in high-performance computing
linked to: InfiniBand
NDR technologyDomain InfiniBand
NDR successorOf HDR InfiniBand
linked to: InfiniBand
NDR protocolFamily InfiniBand architecture
linked to: InfiniBand
NDR usedWith InfiniBand switches
linked to: InfiniBand
XDR precedes QDR InfiniBand
linked to: InfiniBand
XDR comparedTo SDR InfiniBand
linked to: InfiniBand
XDR usedWith InfiniBand host channel adapters
linked to: InfiniBand
XDR conformsTo InfiniBand architecture specification
linked to: InfiniBand
HDR200 networkTechnologyType InfiniBand
HDR200 partOf InfiniBand HDR family
linked to: InfiniBand
Omni-Path alternativeTo InfiniBand
Omni-Path competesWith InfiniBand
HPE (via switches and adapters) supportsStandard InfiniBand architecture
linked to: InfiniBand
NCCL supportsHardware InfiniBand
Eyal Waldman associatedWith InfiniBand networking technology
linked to: InfiniBand
RDMA hasVariant InfiniBand
RoCE competesWith InfiniBand
Michael Kagan notableWork InfiniBand networking technologies
linked to: InfiniBand