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This blog post gives an overview of the InfiniBand functionality that is offered by the transport stack of KIARA. KIARA is a new and advanced middleware and a part of the FI-WARE project which is in turn part of the very large European FI-PPP programme. Several team members of the ICCLab are currently working on […]
This blogpost aims to give you a short introduction to InfiniBand. At the end you should have a rough overview over the technology, much of its terminology and on how to program a very simple RDMA application with IB verbs.
The first part explains the basic characteristics/properties of the InfiniBand technology and the physical parts that a network consists of. The second part takes a closer look at the logical parts of the technology that are needed for communication. In the third and last part I’ll explain the structure of a simple IB verbs application.