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InfiniBand provides high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect between nodes in a GPU cluster for distributed training and multi-node inference workloads.

Network topology

Gcore configures InfiniBand automatically at cluster creation — all nodes with InfiniBand network cards join the same InfiniBand domain. H100 configurations have eight InfiniBand ports per node, each creating a dedicated network interface. InfiniBand configurations also include SHARP, which offloads collective communication operations to the network switches.

Workload considerations

InfiniBand is intended for workloads that require frequent communication between nodes — distributed training and multi-node inference. Workloads that run independently on individual nodes do not use the InfiniBand interconnect.