18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 8
Use of Provisional Routes to Speed-up Change Assimilation in InfiniBand Networks
Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 26-April 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2132-0
The InfiniBand architecture has been proposed as a technology both for communication between processing nodes and I/O devices, and for interprocessor communication. The InfiniBand specification defines a basic management infrastructure that is responsible for subnet configuration, activation, and fault tolerance. Each time a topology change is detected, management entities collect the current subnet topology. After that, new forwarding tables have to be computed and uploaded to routing devices. The time required to compute these tables is a critical issue, due to application traffic being negatively affected by the temporary lack of connectivity. In this paper we present a way to compute a valid set of subnet routes in a short period of time. These provisional routes can be immediately distributed to routing devices. After that, final routes can be later uploaded without affecting user traffic.
Citation:
Aurelio Berm?, Rafael Casado, Francisco J. Quiles, Jos? Duato, "Use of Provisional Routes to Speed-up Change Assimilation in InfiniBand Networks," ipdps, vol. 9, pp.186b, 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'04) - Workshop 8, 2004