1. Joint Techs Workshop InfiniBand Now and Tomorrow
Minneapolis, MN
February 12, 2007
Steve Lyness
Sr. Director, HPC Systems Engineering
QLogic

2. LARGE InfiniBand Ecosystem … and growing
Silicon Providers
IB Systems Providers
IB Solutions Providers
September 18, 2018
QLogic Confidential

3. InfiniBand Today

4. Adapters in multiple form-factors
PCI E – SDR: Message rate sensitive apps
HTX – SDR: Message rate sensitive apps
PCI E – DDR: Bandwidth sensitive apps
Mezz cards for HP, IBM, Dell and Sun
September 18, 2018
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5. 288 Ports 144 Ports 96 Ports 48 Ports 24 Ports
Switches and Gateways
24 port Edge Switches
SDR and DDR
Director Class Switches
24 to 288 ports
Virtual IO Gateways and Routers
10GbE and 4 Gb Fibre Channel VIO gateways
InfiniBand, GigE and 2 Gb FC routers
14U
288 Ports
144 Ports 7U 7U
96 Ports 4U
48 Ports
24 Ports 2U
19” rack
September 18, 2018
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6. InfiniBand Attached Storage using SRP
September 18, 2018
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7. End to End InfiniBand Solutions for HPC … and more
Adapters
Servers
10-20Gb/s
IB Edge
Fabric Switch
10-60Gb/s
IB Multi-Protocol
Director
One Wire
Fibre Channel
Gateway
Ethernet
Gateway
Storage
Fibre Channel
SAN
Ethernet
Network
Native
InfiniBand
September 18, 2018
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8. OpenFabrics SCinet at SC06
SCinet NOC 1545
SCinet
Internet2
DDN S2A9500
Cisco GE
Fujitsu XG1200
LSI/Engenio 6498
QLogic 9120
Voltaire ISR 9096
Panta Matrix
IB 4X DDR 20Gigabits, MPO Fiber
Cisco SFS 7000D
QLogic 9024
IB 4X SDR 10 Gigabits, MPO Fiber
10 Gig Ethernet, SM Fiber
Voltaire ISR 9024
1 Gig Ethernet
XNet 1848
Qlogic 9024
QLogic 9024
Qlogic 9024
QLogic
9024
IB Exhibitors
Ames Lab – 217
Appro – 1634
ASUS – 612
Cisco – 1035
HLRS - 239
Intel – 1523
Mellanox – 1535
NNSA-ASC
Pittsburgh SC – 1049
QLogic – 1024
SilverStorm – 216
Sun Microsystems – 605
Tyan - 240
Voltaire - 942
PANTAmatrix and Storage
September 18, 2018
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9. Advances to the InfiniBand Ecosystem … Coming Soon!

10. Innovation at the host ….
Increased number of “IB Down” motherboards and blades
DDR cards for HTX bus
Increased message rates and decreased latency for DDR
Cards that can be configured to InfiniBand or 10GigE
Quad Data Rate (QDR) – 40
New Cabling solutions including:
Fiber that is cost competitive with copper
Active copper
QSFP connectors (vs. CX4 today)
September 18, 2018
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11. Merged Linux Standards+ Stack
Accelerated Stack
Std Stack
OpenFabrics Stack OFED
QuickSilver Stack
QLogic MPICH
Open MPI
HP MPI
Scali MPI
MVAPICH
MVAPICH2
GPFS
NFS
Oracle
Std TCP/IP
QuickSilver
IB Stack
Std TCP/IP
Std SCSI
Std SCSI
Std Sock …
HP MPI
Intel MPI …
Open MPI
MVAPICH MPI
MPICH2 MPI
HP MPI
Intel MPI
Std TCP/IP
MVAPICH
MVAPICH2
Open MPI
Scali MPI
Lustre
QuickSilver MPI
Scali MPI
Lustre
QuickSilver SM
Fast Fabric
SDP
RDS
SRP
IPoIB
VNIC
VAPI
SRP+
IPoIB
VNIC+
uDAPL
uDAPL
iPath Ether
OpenFabrics Stack
PSM API
ipath Driver
mthca
TavorVpd
ArbelVpd
InfiniPath Adapters
QS Adapters
September 18, 2018
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12. … and fully certified support for Windows Server
Applications
Winsock Socket Switch
WinSock
Provider
MPI2*
IPoIB
NDIS
TCP/UDP/ICMP IP
User
Windows
Applications
OF Windows
Hardware
* Windows Compute
Cluster Server 2003
** Will be available in
the future
SDP**
SDP
SPI**
WSD SAN
Provider
Management
Tools
HCA Hardware
Access Layer
Verbs Provider Driver
Verbs Provider Library
Access Layer Library
Kernel Bypass
SRP
Miniport
StorPort
VNIC**
Kernel
September 18, 2018
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13. Hardware Innovation Staying steps ahead of other Interconnects
QDR switch chips
Enabling QDR to the host (40 GB/s)
Enabling up to 120 Gb/s (12X QDR) switch-to-switch
Higher port count switches
Switch port count maximum is realistically limited to n2 / 2
Example … 32 port chip would be 32*16 = 512 ports
Mainstream InfiniBand Routers
Mainstream Long Haul InfiniBand
Refresh of Ethernet and Fibre Channel gateways
September 18, 2018
QLogic Confidential

14. Software Innovation – Enterprise Ready!
New Enterprise Features and Functions
QOS
Multi-path
Adaptive Routing
Partitioning
Server Boot Options
Enhanced Security
Congestion Avoidance
And then … even more Robust Management and Diagnostics?
GUI and Log based event notification
Fabric Health Monitoring
Automated Problem Resolution
Congestion Management
September 18, 2018
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15. Thank you! Steve Lyness QLogic Corp. steve.lyness@qlogic.com
(610) (Office)
(610) (Cell)