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
PCI Express
surface form: NVLink (for some use cases)

Omni-Path
designedFor cluster computing
data center interconnects
high-performance computing
governedBy InfiniBand self-linksurface differs
surface form: InfiniBand Architecture Specification
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 Corporation
surface form: Intel (historically)

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