You are responsible for the deployment of a large-scale data center using NVIDIA's InfiniBand for AI workloads. Your goal is to ensure both the scalability and reliability of the fabric as the data center grows over time. The initial deployment involves 100 nodes, but you plan to expand to 500 nodes within the next year. It's critical that performance scales with the growth, minimizing bottlenecks, and ensuring reliability without network downtime. Which best practice should you implement to ensure scalability and reliability in a production InfiniBand environment as your data center grows?
How does Partitioning in an InfiniBand network enhance security, and what is the correct method for configuring it to prevent unauthorized communication between devices?
In the InfiniBand protocol stack, each layer plays a specific role in ensuring efficient data transfer and communication. Which of the following best describes the function of the data link layer in the InfiniBand protocol stack?
In InfiniBand, Virtual Lanes (VLs) are used to provide logical isolation of traffic within a single physical connection. What is the maximum number of Virtual Lanes supported by the InfiniBand standard, and what is their primary purpose?