Infiniband Support

If you are using a pure Infiniband network, you can configure Sybase CEP to send messages between servers over the SDP, providing high performance, low latency communication.

To use SDP:

Set the EnableAutoSDP flag in the c8-server.conf file to true.
Set the Hostname to a valid Infiniband address.
Set the ListenTo port to an Infiniband port.

If the EnableAutoSDP flag is set to false, or if either the host or listening port are not set to valid Infiniband values, Sybase CEP uses standard TCP/IP communication.

<!-- Sybase CEP Server -->
    <section name="C8/Server">
        <section name="Common">
            <!-- the server's hostname -->
            <preference name="Hostname">CONFIG_HOST</preference>
            <!-- the server's hostname or IP that it would listen to -->
            <preference name="ListenTo">0.0.0.0</preference>
            <!-- the server's port number that it would listen to -->
            … …
           <!-- this flag used for enabling data exchanging over Infiniband network via SDP -->
           <!-- automatically while hostname, ListenTo and ManagerUri are both set to Infiniband address. -->
            <preference name="EnableAutoSDP">true</preference>
            … …

Note: Infiniband support is only available on Linux and Solaris.