InfiniBand Essentials
Free Interactive self-paced learning
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Course Duration 1.5 Hours
InfiniBand is a high-speed server-interconnect technology. Its greater speed, lower latency, and greater scalability are among its many advantages, and it has become the primary alternative to Ethernet as the interconnect protocol of choice.
This course is the first step into the world of InfiniBand.
If you are looking to become more familiar with InfiniBand’s benefits, uses, architecture layers, management concepts, and basic tools, this is the best place to start.
NVIDIA's free InfiniBand Essentials course is designed to meet the needs of anyone who wishes to be familiar with the basic principles of InfiniBand fabrics, its components, layers and basic management concepts.
For those who wish to understand the architecture, configure, manage and maintain InfiniBand fabrics we recommend to take the “InfiniBand Fundamentals” course and the “Working with Mellanox OFED in InfiniBand Environments” course.
* InfiniBand Introduction
* InfiniBand Architecture Layers Overview
* Fabric Management Concepts
* InfiniBand Drivers and Utilities
* Describe the main features and elements of InfiniBand fabrics
* Describe the 5 layers of the InfiniBand layers model
* Describe the basic management concepts of InfiniBand fabrics
* Describe the main features of Mellanox OFED
* Get familiar with the installation process of Mellanox OFED
* Get familiar with OFED basic management tools
Anyone who wishes to understand the basic principles of InfiniBand fabrics
General understanding of networking concepts and principles
