Infiniband Overview

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Training Description

This self-paced online InfiniBand technical training course is designed for anyone wishing to gain a general understanding of InfiniBand. This InfiniBand Overview course provides an overview of InfiniBand technology, including a high-level look at the InfiniBand specification, what is involved beyond the specification to implement InfiniBand and how InfiniBand can be used by applications.

InfiniBand* is an industry-standard specification defining a system interconnect fabric architecture that can be used between any combination of servers, communications equipment, storage devices and embedded systems. Designed to provide low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnections with low processing overhead, InfiniBand can carry multiple traffic types over a single connection.

* InfiniBand is a registered trademark of the InfiniBand Trade Association

Training Objectives

As a result of this training, you will be able to:

Understand the overall objectives of the InfiniBand Architecture.
Decide how InfiniBand can be used in large commercial computing environments.
Use the InfiniBand Architecture specification and other InfiniBand Trade Association resources.
Understand the major architectural areas of InfiniBand: fabric (switches and routers), components, software and management.
Understand how the InfiniBand Architecture specification is used by other protocols to provide an interface to the InfiniBand fabric for applications and operating systems.

Attendees

This course is designed to provide an introduction to InfiniBand. As an overview, this course is touches on the major areas involved in any InfiniBand implementation and provides a foundation in InfiniBand technology for anyone involved in an InfiniBand project, such as project managers, system designers, testers, service and sales engineers, IT Professionals, network managers and anyone who will be involved with designing, maintaining or operating InfiniBand devices and/or networks.

Prerequisites

Course attendees should have an understanding of the various computer architectures and a general understanding of networking and inter-networking concepts.

Self-Paced Modules

InfiniBand Training Module 00: Course Introduction

InfiniBand Training Module 01: Objectives of InfiniBand

Objectives
Why InfiniBand?
Competing technologies

InfiniBand Training Module02: History of InfiniBand

Earlier technologies
InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA)

InfiniBand Training Module 03: InfiniBand Specification

What’s in the InfiniBand Specification
What’s NOT in the InfiniBand Specification

InfiniBand Training Module 04: Architectural Components: Hardware

Architectural Components Overview
Host Channel Adapters
Target Channel Adapters
Switches
Routers

InfiniBand Training Module 05: Architectural Components: Software

Drivers
Security
Management functions

InfiniBand Training Module 06: Architectural Components: Interfaces

Verbs
Managers
Operating system support
Other protocols

InfiniBand Training Module 07: Architectural Components: Implementations

Historical implementations
OpenIB: the current popular implementation

InfiniBand Training Module 08: Architectural Components: Layered Architecture – Top

Consumer Layer
Transport Layer
Network Layer

InfiniBand Training Module 09: Architectural Components: Layered Architecture – Bottom

Link Layer
Physical Layer

InfiniBand Training Module 10: Architectural Components: Channel Adapters

Characteristics
HCA Usage
TCA Usage

InfiniBand Training Module 11: Architectural Components: Remote Direct Memory Access

RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access)

InfiniBand Training Module 12: Architectural Components: Inter-Device Communications

Queue Pairs
Channel Connections

InfiniBand Training Module 13: Architectural Components: Service Types

Unreliable Datagram Service
Unreliable Connection Service
Reliable Datagram Service
Reliable Connection Service
Raw Service

InfiniBand Training Module 14: Architectural Components: InfiniBand Subnet Management

Management Model
Subnet Manager (SM)

InfiniBand Training Module 15: Architectural Components: InfiniBand General Management

Subnet Agents and Interface
General Services

InfiniBand Training Module 16: Uses of InfiniBand

Deployment Options
System component
Stand-alone
Closed system
Datacenter

InfiniBand Training Module 17: Application Exploiters

Importance of Layers
Clusters
Storage
Communication