{"product_id":"mastering-infiniband-high-performance-networking-for-hpc-ai-and-data-centers-9798262218943","title":"Mastering InfiniBand: High-Performance Networking for HPC, AI, and Data Centers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nova Trex\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: System Administration - Disaster \u0026amp; Recovery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMastering InfiniBand is a definitive, practitioner-focused guide to designing, building, and operating the fabrics that power modern HPC clusters, AI training platforms, and data-centric infrastructure. It distills the InfiniBand architecture from first principles-end-to-end channel semantics, addressing (GUIDs, LIDs, GIDs), packet formats, virtual lanes, and credit-based flow control-through management planes (SMA, SM, SA, PMA, BMA) and IP transport via IPoIB. The book then grounds readers in physical and link-layer engineering, covering signaling from SDR to HDR\/NDR and emerging XDR, lane bonding and breakouts, FEC\/CRC and error propagation, port state machines, arbitration and deadlock avoidance, optics and cabling for reach and BER, and structured wiring with proactive telemetry to keep large-scale fabrics healthy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor software and system engineers, the text provides a deep dive into transport semantics and the RDMA programming model: RC, UC, UD, XRC, and DC; queue pairs and scalable completion paths; work requests, S\/G lists, and polling strategies; memory registration, MR caching, and ODP; atomics, fencing, and ordering. Advanced coverage of mlx5 direct verbs and DevX enables direct hardware programming, while guidance on doorbells, BlueFlame, inline thresholds, batching, tag-matching offload, and multi-rail striping shows how to extract real-world performance. Integration chapters bridge the fabric to MPI (UCX, libfabric\/OFI, HPC-X), in-network compute with SHARP, GPU networking with GPUDirect RDMA\/Async and NCCL topology-aware collectives, storage over RDMA (SRP, iSER, NVMe\/RDMA, SMB Direct) and parallel file systems, plus virtualization (SR-IOV, VFIO, nested) and Kubernetes device plugins, CNI, and pod-level QoS-ensuring clean workflows across HPC, AI, and service-oriented stacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArchitects and operators will find rigorous treatment of fabric topologies (fat-tree, dragonfly(+), torus, hypercube), routing strategies and adaptive policies, QoS design, congestion control and tuning, multicast scaling, and capacity planning. A comprehensive performance engineering toolkit spans host architecture (PCIe\/NVLink, NUMA), IOMMU\/ATS, huge pages, message sizing, connection scaling, interrupt moderation, jitter and tail-latency control, along with fair microbenchmarking and end-to-end roofline-style modeling. Day-2 operations are covered end to end: PMA-driven telemetry pipelines, SLO dashboards, BER\/FEC health signals, failure domains and fast reroute, troubleshooting loops and misroutes, incast containment, packet capture and tracing, and incident response playbooks. The roadmap closes with HDR\/NDR deployment trade-offs, InfiniBand routers and multi-subnet scale-out, Ethernet interoperability and RoCE contrasts, DPUs and control-plane offload, time sync, energy efficiency, zero-trust security, migration strategies, and the future of in-network compute and XDR-equipping readers to build resilient, efficient fabrics that scale with confidence.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46333414604951,"sku":"9798262218943","price":4140.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798262218943.webp?v=1768669474","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mastering-infiniband-high-performance-networking-for-hpc-ai-and-data-centers-9798262218943","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}