The exponential growth of data, the increasingly ubiquitous nature of AI applications, and the rapid expansion of data center infrastructure size are among several trends profoundly impacting today’s data center networks.  As enterprise and research institutions strive to maximize data center efficiency from all aspects, improving the use of the network resources is perhaps the most impactful technique. 
InfiniBand is the preferred choice for world-leading supercomputers, displacing lower performance and proprietary interconnect options. The end-to-end NVIDIA®

InfiniBand-based network enables extremely low latencies and high data throughput and message rates. Its high-value features, such as smart In-Network Computing acceleration engines, combined with advanced self-healing network capabilities, congestion control, quality of service, and adaptive routing,  enable leading performance and scalability for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and other compute and data-intensive applications. The performance advantages of InfiniBand are second to none, while its open industry-standards backed guarantee of backward and forward compatibility across generations ensure users protect their data center investments.