History of InfiniBand for Dummies
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InfiniBand for Dummies
Getting Started Tutorial for InfiniBand and Linux
These are mostly my personal notes, culled from various holes on the Internet. I wish there was a basic "Noob's Guide to Networking beyond 1000BaseT (i.e. ye good ol' 1 Gigabit RJ-45 Jack.)
Hardware
Mellanox is the king of InfiniBand, though they are selling more Ethernet equipment than InfiniBand these days.- Gotcha ConnectX-2 Cards suck
Software
- Gotcha Linux KVM virtualization only supports Ethernet bridging, thus you MUST use SR-IOV if you want InfiniBand in your Guest servers.