HDR/EDR Infiniband to 200G/100G Ethernet Gateway
InfiniBand connects the world’s top HPC and artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers, delivering the fastest data speed, extremely low latency, and smart accelerations, together with the highest levels of efficiency and resilience.
IT organizations frequently choose InfiniBand solutions for connecting their compute and storage resources together. In scenarios where storage elements reside on an Ethernet network, or when outside connectivity to Ethernet is required, a high-speed gateway between InfiniBand and Ethernet networks is required.
Skyway is an appliance-based InfiniBand-to-Ethernet gateway, designed for quick and easy set up and management. Installed at the boundary between InfiniBand and Ethernet networks, the appliance supports standard IP routing protocols and is deployable on any InfiniBand topology. Skyway contains eight ConnectX Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) dual-port adapter cards that enable the hardware-based forwarding of IP packets over InfiniBand (IPoIB) to Ethernet, and vice versa.
Skyway also includes the NVIDIA Gateway operating system (MLNX-GW), which manages both the appliance hardware as well as the high availability and load balancing between gateway appliances and between ports.