InfiniBand Advantages
Some of the major advantages offered by the InfiniBand network architecture include the following:
Supports multiple protocols, including tunneling packets associated with virtually any non-InfiniBand protocol through an InfiniBand fabric.
Throughput of 2.5Gb/s, 10Gb/s, or 30Gb/s is achievable (depending on the link width implemention).
Non-privileged applications can send and receive messages without causing a kernel privilege mode switch.
The processor is not involved in message passing. Rather, each network message transfer is handled by hardware DMA transfer engines within the channel adapter.
The InfiniBand protocol includes message transfer commands that permit direct memory-to-memory message transfers between the local ...
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