Description
This course introduces the technical fundamentals of the InfiniBand architecture and features. Attendees will gain a working knowledge of the architecture and structure of InfiniBand.
InfiniBand, a switched fabric architecture with up to 30 Gigabits per second!, will consolidate the interconnects in a data center and will become the industry's next I/O standard.
Objectives
The course discuss InfiniBand Architecture fundamentals, including:
- InfiniBand Management
- Putting InfiniBand Architecture to Practice
- Protocol Layers
- Physical Layer Interface
- Link Layer
- Network Layer
- Transport Layer and more...
Course Outline
Introduction
- Today's high bandwidth servers and communications devices
- Applications within data centers
- Throughput and Latency
- Reliability and Availability
- Cost
- InfiniBand Architecture Overview
- InfiniBand Architectural Components
- Fabric, Channel Adapters, Switches & Routers, Protocol Stack and Layer Functions, and Management Functions
- Comparison to Existing Technologies
- InfiniBand-Enabled Applications and the Data Center of the Future
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Topologies & Components
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Communications Stack
IBA (Infiniband Architecture) Components
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Links & Repeaters
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Channel Adapters
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Switches
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Routers
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Management Components
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Physical Layer
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Link Layer
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Network Layer
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Transport Layer
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Upper Layer Protocols
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Subnet Management
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General Services
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IBA Management Infrastructure
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Management Interfaces
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Subnet Management Interface
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General Service Interface
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Packet Types
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Data Packet Format
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Raw Packet Format
Physical Layer Interface and Link Layer
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Services provided by the Physical Layer.
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Interface between physical and Link Layers
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Link Layer
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State Machine Conventions
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Link States
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CRCs and Flow Control
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IBA and Raw Packet Multicast
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Subnet Multipathing
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Error detection and handling
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Transport Interface
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Transport Services
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Transport Characteristics
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Transport Functions, Headers, Reliable
- Base Transport Header
- Extended Transport Headers
- Transport Functions
- Transaction Ordering
- Packet Transport Header Validation
- Reliable Service
- Unreliable Service
- Error detection and handling
- Header and Data Field Source
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Service Mechanisms
Software Transport Interface and Management
Channel Adapters, Switches and Routers
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Common Functional Requirements
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Host Channel Adapter
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Target Channel Adapter
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Switch Functional Requirements
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Router Functional Requirements
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The Marketplace
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Vendors
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Trends
Who Should Attend
Whether you're a hardware or software engineer, programmer, manager, technical marketing and sales professional , or test engineer, you'll find this course gives you the solid understanding you need to grasp the Infiniband concepts.
Prerequisites
Previous experience with Fibre Channel, IP, networking or storage is preferred.