[Beowulf] InfiniBand channel bundling?

[Christopher Samuel]

On 28/10/14 07:52, Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> You could increase the bandwidth, but not the latency. If anything, the
> latency might go up as some additional work will need to be done to
> coordinate the data going over the two different connections.

I suspect you'd take more of a penalty when doing the IB fabric
initialisation and then at wire-up of connections, once that's done it's
probably just a quick decision to decide which port to use for data
transfers.  So yes, maybe slightly slower (assuming the code has some
fast path that is used when there is only a single connection to use)
but I'd have thought likely not significant.

cheers,
Chris
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