Mellanox Grid Director 4700 Installation Manual
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cables wasted for inter-switch connectivity. HyperScale combines the best of Hypercube
(price, simplicity, cabling) and Fat-tree (performance).
HyperScale features:
Each 324 node scalable unit is fully independent (failures, upgrades)
Lowest latency of 400 nanoseconds (vs. 500/750 nanoseconds)
There are fewer cables to wire
Ultimate application performance (large non-blocking islands and minimize application
specific tuning/layout).
2.3.2
Switching Topologies
The following figure illustrates the Grid Director 4700 InfiniBand internal switching
topology.
Figure 5: Grid Director 4700 Switching Topology