HP Cluster Platform Interconnects v2010 HP Cluster Platform InfiniBand Interco - Page 21
ISR 9xxxx-series Interconnects, A connection to the Wide Area Network WAN.
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- A PCI bus adapter that is installed in a host, such as a server. - Any networked device that includes an InfiniBand-compliant HCA chip on its motherboard. • An interconnect (switch) connecting all devices (such as servers) in a switched point-to-point network. • A router or gateway, providing connections to other InfiniBand or TCP/IP Ethernet subnets. • InfiniBand cables that are of parallel copper design that link the InfiniBand components together. Figure 1-1 Typical InfiniBand Network 3 6 1 2 4 7 7 8 5 9 10 11 1. Server (node) memory, directly accessible via RDMA. 2. Server CPU. 3. HCA installed in the server's PCI bus. 4. InfiniBand Interconnect. 5. Servers as nodes in an InfiniBand network. 6. A Storage unit with an integrated HCA. 7. A Fibre Channel gateway (router) with an integrated HCA, linked to a Fibre Channel storage array. 8. A Fibre Channel storage array, accessed through a Fibre Channel gateway (router). 9. An Ethernet router with an integrated HCA. 10. Devices in the Local Area Network (LAN). 11. A connection to the Wide Area Network (WAN). 1.2 ISR 9xxxx-series Interconnects HP is currently superseding the ISR 9xxxx-series interconnects documented in this guide with newer models. The ISR 9096 and ISR 9288 models documented in this guide have the following constraints: 1.2 ISR 9xxxx-series Interconnects 21