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Using InfiniBand for a scalable compute infrastructure Technology brief, 4th edition Introduction ...

10 HPC-optimized HP Cluster Platforms Deploying the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio (UCP) can give you the performance and flexibility of a custom solut

11 Conclusion You should base your decision to use Ethernet or InfiniBand on performance and cost requirements. We are committed to supporting both I

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2 Introduction Increasingly, IT organizations are deploying scale-out computing using clusters for these applications: • High performance computing

3 InfiniBand technology InfiniBand is an industry-standard, channel-based architecture with an application-centric view to provide an easy-to-use mes

4 Figure 3. InfiniBand link types The host channel adapter (HCA) can divide (multiplex) each link into a set of virtual lanes, similar to highway

5 InfiniBand Quality of Service functions All traffic in a clustered environment competes for fabric resources such as physical links and queues. To

6 Figure 5. InfiniBand cluster topologies InfiniBand provides native support for fat-tree and other mesh topologies, allowing simultaneous connect

7 Scale-out clusters built on InfiniBand and HP technology Scale-out cluster computing has become the common architecture for HPC, and broader market

8 HPC configuration with HP BladeSystem solutions Figure 7 shows a full-bandwidth, fat-tree configuration of HP BladeSystem c-Class components provid

9 To meet extreme density goals, the half-height HP BL2x220c server blade includes two server nodes. Each node can support two quad-core Intel® Xeon®