InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link primarily used in high-performance computing.
Its features include quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable.
The InfiniBand architecture specification defines a connection between processor nodes and high performance I/O nodes such as storage devices.
It is a superset of the Virtual Interface Architecture.
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