This seminar is designed to provide a comprehensive summary of the InfiniBand architecture. The course takes the student through the plethora of documentation and simplifies all aspects of InfiniBand. The course will investigate the application aspects of InfiniBand and how to construct an InfiniBand based System Area Network. You will learn the required basics to fully understand InfiniBand and some of the topics covered can be seen below.

Course Outline
InfiniBand Architecture  Why a new I/O Interconnect  Architectural Features and Model  System Area Networks  Subnets, Switches & Routers IBA Layered Architecture  Upper Layer  Transport Layer  Network Layer  Link Layer  Physical Layer Verbs & Verb Concepts  HCA & TCA  Queue Pairs  Work Queue Elements  Completion Queue  Memory Regions Management Concepts  Subnet Manager  Subnet Management Agent  General Service Agent  Power Management Transport Functions & Services  Reliable Connection  Unreliable Connection	Reliable Datagrams  Unreliable Datagrams  Raw Packets  Send & Atomics  RDMA Read/Write Addressing  Global IDs  Local IDs  Multicast IDs  Unicast IDs  Globally Unique Identifiers  Switching & Routing Headers & Packet Formats  GRH, LRH, BTH & ETH Headers  Data Packet Formats  Segmentation of Data Physical Components  Connectors & Cabling  1X, 4X, 12X  Copper & Optical Transmission Channel Adapters  Memory Translation & Protection  Virtual Lanes  DMA & Memory Management  Adapter & Port IDs  Requirements	Other Topics Include:  I/O Units  Link & Phy blocks  Ordered Sets & Control Symbols  Performance Counters  Hardware Management  Baseboard Management  Partitions  Simplified Address Resolution Flow Control  Link Level  Coalescing ACKs  Credits and ACK/NAK Protocol IBA Operations  Abnormal Conditions  Duplicate Packets  Ghost Packets  Invalid or Lost Packets  Stale Packets  PSN  Connection Protocol  Error Management  Typical I/O Transactions  SCSI RDMA Protocol  Channel & Memory Semantics  Memory Binding  Memory Windows  Memory Regions
Who Should Attend: This seminar is specifically for developers, integrators, managers, marketing personnel, technical writers and others with a need for an understanding of System Area Networks as implemented using InfiniBand technology. Prerequisites: An understanding of current computer interfaces or networks is useful, but not absolutely necessary. Course Length: 1 Day - Introduction 2 Days - Concepts and Solutions 3 Days - In-Depth

This is an Off-site QLogic Public Seminar (Enrollment is open to the public)

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