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On the InfiniBand Subnet Discovery Process
Hong Kong December 01-December 04
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CLUSTR.2003.1253361Fifth IEEE International Conference o ...
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Aurelio Berm?, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Rafael Casado, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Francisco J. Quiles, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Timothy M. Pinkston, University of Southern California
Jos? Duato, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia
InfiniBand is becoming an industry standard both for communication between processing nodes and I/O devices, and for interprocessor communication. Instead of using a shared bus, InfiniBand employs an arbitrary (possibly irregular) switched point-to-point network. InfiniBand specification defines a basic management infrastructure that is responsible for subnet configuration, activation, and fault tolerance. After the detection of a topology change, management entities collect the current subnet topology. The topology discovery algorithm is one of the management issues that are outside the scope of the current specification. Preliminary implementations obtain the entire topological information each time a change is detected. In this work, we present and analyze an optimized implementation, based on exploring only the region that has been affected by the change.
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Aurelio Berm?, Rafael Casado, Francisco J. Quiles, Timothy M. Pinkston, Jos? Duato, "On the InfiniBand Subnet Discovery Process," cluster, pp.512, Fifth IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'03), 2003
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