NCA-AIIO: AI Infrastructure and OperationsDemo

By NVIDIA · Question Mode

QuestionQ24

Data Center Infrastructure

When using an InfiniBand network for AI infrastructure, which software component is required for the fabric to operate?

  • A Verbs
  • B MPI
  • C OpenSM
Explanation

OpenSM provides the InfiniBand Subnet Manager function required to initialize, discover, activate, and manage an InfiniBand subnet. NVIDIA documentation states that one Subnet Manager must run for each InfiniBand subnet.

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