An Introduction to the InfiniBand Architecture
Rajkumar Buyya, Toni Cortes, Hai Jin · 2009
The InfiniBand Architecture (IBA) is a new industry-standard architecture for server I/O and inter-server communication. It was developed by the InfiniBandSMTrade Association (IBTA) to provide the levels of reliability, availability, performance, and scalability necessary for present and future server systems, levels significantly better than can be achieved with bus-oriented I/O structures. This chapter provides a description of the reason IBA was developed, an brief overview of the architecture as a whole, more detailed information about several selected IBA topics, and discussion of industry implications of this architecture.