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Management traffic typically communicates with the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) on the compute nodes using IPMI. The
management network is used to push images or packages to the compute nodes from the master nodes and for reporting data from
client to the master node. Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON is recommended for management network.
Interconnect
Figure 8 describes how the network components are configured for different storages. InfiniBand EDR connection uses Mellanox
SB7700 switch, and the cable connections are identical to Dell Networking H1048-OPF. Either Intel
®
OPA or IB EDR network is
configured as 2:1 blocking fat tree topology.
Software Components
Along with the hardware components, the solution includes the following software components:
 Bright Cluster Manager
®
 BioBuilds
Figure 7 Dell Networking S3048-ON
Figure 8 Illustration of Networking Topology