Evaluation of a subnet management mechanism for InfiniBand networks

Author

Bermudez, Aurelio ; Casado, Rafael ; Quiles, Francisco J. ; Pinkston, Timothy M. ; Duato, José

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete

fYear

2003

fDate

9-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

124

Abstract

The InfiniBand architecture is a high-performance network technology for the interconnection of processor nodes and I/O devices using a point-to-point switch-based fabric. The InfiniBand specification defines a basic management infrastructure that is responsible for subnet configuration, activation, and fault tolerance. Subnet management entities and functions are described, but the specifications do not impose any particular implementation. We present and analyze a complete subnet management mechanism for this architecture. We allow to anticipate future directions to obtain efficient management protocols

Keywords

computer network management; fault tolerant computing; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; protocols; InfiniBand architecture; InfiniBand networks; fault tolerance; management infrastructure; point-to-point switch-based fabric; subnet configuration; subnet management mechanism; Computer network management; Computer science; Distributed computing; Engineering management; Fabrics; Network topology; Packet switching; Protocols; Switches; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

ISSN

0190-3918

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2017-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPP.2003.1240572

Filename

1240572