Isr 9Xxxx-Series Interconnects; Typical Infiniband Network - HP Cluster Platform Interconnects v2010 User Manual

— A PCI bus adapter that is installed in a host, such as a server.
— Any networked device that includes an InfiniBand-compliant HCA chip on its
motherboard.
• An interconnect (switch) connecting all devices (such as servers) in a switched point-to-point
network.
• A router or gateway, providing connections to other InfiniBand or TCP/IP Ethernet subnets.
• InfiniBand cables that are of parallel copper design that link the InfiniBand components
together.
Figure 1-1 Typical InfiniBand Network
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1. Server (node) memory, directly accessible via RDMA.
2. Server CPU.
3. HCA installed in the server's PCI bus.
4. InfiniBand Interconnect.
5. Servers as nodes in an InfiniBand network.
6. A Storage unit with an integrated HCA.
7. A Fibre Channel gateway (router) with an integrated HCA, linked to a Fibre Channel storage
array.
8. A Fibre Channel storage array, accessed through a Fibre Channel gateway (router).
9. An Ethernet router with an integrated HCA.
10. Devices in the Local Area Network (LAN).
11. A connection to the Wide Area Network (WAN).

1.2 ISR 9xxxx-series Interconnects

HP is currently superseding the ISR 9xxxx-series interconnects documented in this guide with
newer models. The ISR 9096 and ISR 9288 models documented in this guide have the following
constraints:
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1.2 ISR 9xxxx-series Interconnects
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