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- Comparing Fabric Technologies: InfiniBand Architecture, Gigabit Ethernet, and Fibre Channel
- The InfiniBand Architecture defines one of the newest networking technologies and naturally raises the question of when/where/how will it replace existing technologies. A careful examination of the leading network technologies demonstrates that there is plenty of room for incumbent networks and the newer technologies. Three of the most popular networking...
- Tags: Crossroads Systems, Fibre Channel, Network, Networking Technology, Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand Architecture, InfiniBand, Ethernet, Network Technology, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Networking, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2003-11-13
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- IBM eServer BladeCenter and Topspin InfiniBand Switch Technology
- To set the stage for the Topspin InfiniBand solution, this paper discusses the technology of InfiniBand, BladeCenter, and IBM TotalStorage. Then it covers in depth the Topspin InfiniBand architecture, switch module, and host channel adapter card, and the use of Element Manager and Chassis Manager. This paper provides details of...
- Tags: TopSpin Communications, IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM eServer, IBM Corp., InfiniBand, Blade Servers, Networking, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Cisco Server Fabric Switch InfiniBand Fabric
- Cisco Server Fabric Switches SFSs facilitate utility computing by dramatically simplifying the data center architecture, creating a unified, "Wire-once" fabric that aggregates I/O and server resources. This paper provides an overview of InfiniBand essentials and then focuses on the use and functions of the Ethernet gateway. InfiniBand is a standards-based...
- Tags: Server, Cisco Systems Inc., InfiniBand, Ethernet, Data Centers, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Understanding InfiniBand
- InfiniBand is a technology that was developed to address the performance problems associated with data movement between computer Input/Output (I/O) devices and associated protocol stack processing. Although InfiniBand was developed to address I/O performance, InfiniBand is widely deployed within High Performance Compute HPC clusters due to the high bandwidth and...
- Tags: I/O, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Oracle RAC Over InfiniBand
- InfiniBand Architecture IBA is an industry-standard, channel-based, switched-fabric, high-speed interconnect architecture with low latency and high throughput. With Oracle support of IP over InfiniBand IPoIB, Oracle Real Application Clusters RAC customers can now take advantage of greatly improved performance and scalability while using a scalable number of inexpensive high-performance servers....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Oracle Real Application Cluster, InfiniBand, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Networking, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Configuring Oracle RAC Over InfiniBand
- This paper is intended to provide the general instructions on how to do the following: install Oracle Cluster Ready Services CRS over InfiniBand; install Real Application Clusters RAC 10g R2 over InfiniBand; configure a cluster database on RedHat Enterprise Linux RHEL 3.0 or 4.0 over InfiniBand. This paper should be...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Real Application Cluster, InfiniBand, Databases, Enterprise Software, Networking, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Exploring InfiniBand as an HPC Cluster Interconnect
- InfiniBand is quickly becoming the interconnect of choice for many high-performance computing HPC applications because of its compelling price/performance and standards-based technology. This paper introduces InfiniBand technology and discusses its benefits for HPC clusters. It also presents the results of some initial performance comparisons of InfiniBand to the Gigabit Ethernet...
- Tags: InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2004-10-01
- InfiniBand - Industry Standard Data Center Fabric Is Ready for Prime Time
- Like most nascent technologies, InfiniBand launched with unrealistic hype and expectations only to fall from grace as a result of the industry down-turn in the early 2000s. While many in the press and public eye deemed InfiniBand to never become a mainstream technology, the true industry believers of InfiniBand continued...
- Tags: Industry Standard, Industry, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2005-12-01
- InfiniBand Fabric Topologies
- InfiniBand IB is a switched I/O fabric designed for low latency, high bandwidth, and with capabilities that enable very low CPU consumption. HP supports InfiniBand on HP-UX as a High Performance Computing clustering fabric specifically for MPI applications and, in the future, will also support InfiniBand as the clustering interconnect...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Clustering, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2004-08-17
- Using InfiniBand for High Performance Computing
- With business models constantly changing to keep pace with nowadays Internet-based, global economy, IT organizations are continually challenged to provide customers with high performance platforms while controlling their cost. With broader adoption of High Performance Computing HPC in various industry segments, more enterprise businesses are implementing parallel compute cluster architectures...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., High-performance Computing, High-performance, InfiniBand, Cloud Computing, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Exploring the Performance of the Myrinet PC-Cluster on Linux
- Both the Infiniband and the Virtual Interface Architecture VIA aim at providing effective cluster communication. However, the specification of the former does not define APIs. It contains an abstract description of the protocol verbs. The dependence of an implementation on the various features of the hardware, firmware, and software are...
- Tags: Performance, Implementation, Specification, International School For Advanced Study, Virtual Interface Architecture, InfiniBand, Linux, Performance Management, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- InfiniBand SDR, DDR, and QDR Technology Guide
- The InfiniBand standard supports single, double, and quadruple data rate that enables an InfiniBand link to transmit more data. This paper discusses the characteristics of Single Data Rate SDR, Double Data Rate DDR, and Quad Data Rate QDR InfiniBand transmission with the respect to performance, transmission distances, and cabling considerations.
- Tags: InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2006-09-01
- HP InfiniBand Solution for Oracle RAC Environments
- Oracle Real Application Clusters RAC has a scale out, shared-disk clustering architecture. Most Oracle RAC deployments use standard Ethernet networks for the cluster interconnect, however applications that have high levels of contention will not scale beyond a certain point. For these applications, InfiniBand technologies can be deployed for the cluster...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Environment, Oracle Real Application Cluster, InfiniBand, Blade Servers, Ethernet, Databases, Enterprise Software, Networking, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-02-01
- High Performance MPI-2 One-Sided Communication Over InfiniBand
- Many existing MPI-2 one-sided communication implementations are built on top of MPI send/receive operations. Although this approach can achieve good portability, it suffers from high communication overhead and dependency on remote process for communication progress. To address these problems, the paper proposes a high performance MPI-2 one-sided communication design over...
- Tags: Ohio State University, Communication, High-performance, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- InfiniBand in the Enterprise Data Center
- InfiniBand is a high-speed server-interconnect technology that is specified and maintained by the InfiniBand Trade Association IBTA. Through use of Host Channel Adapters HCA and Switches, InfiniBand Technology is used to connect servers with remote storage and networking devices, and other servers. It can also be used inside servers for...
- Tags: Mellanox Technologies, Data Center, Network, Server, InfiniBand, Data Centers, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-03-15
- A Portable Client/Server Communication Middleware Over SANs: Design and Performance Evaluation With Virtual Interface and InfiniBand
- This paper addresses the problem of using high performance SAN technologies to provide efficient communication support in client/server type of environments. The objective is to build a portable substrate which not only bridges the functionality gap between applications and SAN networks and preserves the performance of the underlying communication layer,...
- Tags: Client-server, Performance, Ohio State University, SAN, Middleware, Performance Evaluation, Storage Area Networks (SAN), InfiniBand, Storage Management, Storage, Performance Management, Hardware, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- IBM High Performance Computing for Linux on POWER Using InfiniBand
- This paper provides an overview and describes the components and performance of a High Performance Computing HPC solution for Linux on POWER using InfiniBand as the cluster interconnects. The paper contains performance results for several communication benchmarks running on IBM System p5 servers with the IBM Host Channel Adapter driving...
- Tags: Performance, High-performance Computing, IBM Corp., InfiniBand, Linux, Performance Management, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Data Storage for HPC: An InfiniBand Perspective
- This presentation explores several methods of attaching fast and large storage to InfiniBand IB Technology-connected clusters. The presentation describes which storage architectures, techniques, and vendors supply solutions for the typical applications used on these InfiniBand clusters. Technologies such as RDMA, DDR and QDR, and open driver software initiatives such as...
- Tags: Data Storage, Storage, InfiniBand, Networking
- Presentations 2006-09-21
- Experimental Evaluation of Infiniband Transport Over Local-and Wide-Area Networks
- High-performance file systems that span across supercomputers and storage systems are becoming increasingly important, as these resources are being dispersed both within the enterprise and across the wide-area. Infiniband transport has been proposed as a candidate to provide high-performance access over interconnects primarily within an enterprise. This paper presents an...
- Tags: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Network, WAN, InfiniBand, Networking
- White papers 2007-03-29
- Evaluating the Impact of RDMA on Storage I/O Over InfiniBand
- Recently, several protocols such as iSER iSCSI Extension for RDMA and SCSI RDMA Protocol SRP have been proposed to improve the performance of storage I/O. These protocols promise a better performance by taking advantage of Remote Direct Memory Access RDMA operations. The need for design and development of new hardware...
- Tags: I/O, Remote Direct Memory Access, Storage I/O, Remote Access, InfiniBand, Storage, Networking, Hardware
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