Paper Info
Title
On the Infiniband subnet discovery process
Abstract
InfiniBand is becoming an industry standard both for communication between processing nodes and I/O devices, and for interprocessor communication. Instead of using a shared bus, InfiniBand employs an arbitrary (possibly irregular) switched point-to-point network. InfiniBand specification defines a basic management infrastructure that is responsible for subnet configuration, activation, and fault tolerance. After the detection of a topology change, management entities collect the current subnet topology. The topology discovery algorithm is one of the management issues that are outside the scope of the current specification. Preliminary implementations obtain the entire topological information each time a change is detected. In this work, we present and analyze an optimized implementation, based on exploring only the region that has been affected by the change.
Year
DOI
Keywords
2003
10.1109/CLUSTR.2003.1253361
communication complexity,computer communications software,computer network management,data communication,fault tolerant computing,local area networks,message passing,network operating systems,optimisation,telecommunication network routing,telecommunication standards,I/O devices,Infiniband,arbitrary switched point-to-point network,basic management infrastructure,fault tolerance,interprocessor communication,processing nodes,shared bus,subnet activation,subnet configuration,subnet discovery process,subnet topology,topology discovery algorithm
Field
DocType
ISBN
InfiniBand,Computer science,Computer network,Implementation,Subnet,Real-time computing,Local area network,Message passing,Distributed computing,Parallel computing,Communication complexity,Fault tolerance,Business process discovery
Conference
0-7695-2066-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.81
3
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aurelio Bermúdez117318.13
Rafael Casado213913.42
Francisco J. Quiles343841.67
Timothy Mark Pinkston4107369.68
José Duato53481294.85