Example system designs
Omnia can configure systems which use Ethernet or Infiniband-based fabric to connect the compute servers.
Network Setup
With Omnia 1.2, only the control plane requires internet access. In such a situation, the network topology would follow the below diagram:
If the user would like to have all compute nodes connect to the internet, the following network diagram can be followed.
Network Topology
Possible network configurations include:
- A flat topology where all nodes are connected to a switch which includes an uplink to the internet. This requires multiple externally-facing IP addresses
- A hierarchical topology where compute nodes are connected to a common switch, but the manager node contains a second network connection which is connected to the internet. All outbound/inbound traffic would be routed through the manager node. This requires setting up firewall rules for IP masquerade, see here for an example.