You are tasked with setting up an HPC cluster using MPI over InfiniBand. As part of the setup, you need to ensure optimal data transfer performance between nodes. Which of the following is the most critical MPI feature for optimizing communication over InfiniBand in this context?
A financial services company is using RDMA over InfiniBand to accelerate the processing of real-time market data between servers. The application employs zero-copy techniques to avoid unnecessary data copies during communication. However, after switching to this configuration, the company observes that CPU utilization is still relatively high during data transfers, and performance gains are less than expected. What could be the most likely reason for the suboptimal performance?
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?