Protocol
InfiniBand
IB
Lossless switched fabric with its own L2/L3 (LID/GID), subnet manager, and verbs transport (RC/UD/…). Credits, VLs, and partition keys provide QoS and isolation for HPC and GPU clusters.
Tags
fabriclidgidsubnet-managerverbs
Sources
- InfiniBand Architecture Specification
- OpenSM / UFM administration guides
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