Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter
E500307
The Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter is a high-performance network interface card designed to connect compute nodes to Intel’s Omni-Path high-speed interconnect fabric in HPC clusters.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Omni-Path host channel adapters | 1 |
| Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter canonical | 1 |
| Omni-Path switch ASIC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5167707 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter Context triple: [Omni-Path, hasComponent, Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter]
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A.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a high-speed, low-latency communications standard commonly used as the interconnect fabric in supercomputers and large-scale data centers.
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B.
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel is a high-speed network technology primarily used to connect computer data storage in storage area networks (SANs), offering low-latency, high-throughput communication for enterprise environments.
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C.
NVMe over Fabrics
NVMe over Fabrics is a network protocol that extends the high-performance NVMe storage interface across various network transports to enable low-latency, scalable access to remote solid-state storage.
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D.
Cisco FabricPath
Cisco FabricPath is a Cisco proprietary Layer 2 multipath technology that combines the simplicity of Ethernet with the scalability and resilience of routing to build large, efficient data center fabrics.
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E.
HPE (via switches and adapters)
HPE (via switches and adapters) is a leading enterprise technology provider that supplies InfiniBand-based networking hardware to support high-performance computing and data center environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter Target entity description: The Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter is a high-performance network interface card designed to connect compute nodes to Intel’s Omni-Path high-speed interconnect fabric in HPC clusters.
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A.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a high-speed, low-latency communications standard commonly used as the interconnect fabric in supercomputers and large-scale data centers.
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B.
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel is a high-speed network technology primarily used to connect computer data storage in storage area networks (SANs), offering low-latency, high-throughput communication for enterprise environments.
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C.
NVMe over Fabrics
NVMe over Fabrics is a network protocol that extends the high-performance NVMe storage interface across various network transports to enable low-latency, scalable access to remote solid-state storage.
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D.
Cisco FabricPath
Cisco FabricPath is a Cisco proprietary Layer 2 multipath technology that combines the simplicity of Ethernet with the scalability and resilience of routing to build large, efficient data center fabrics.
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E.
HPE (via switches and adapters)
HPE (via switches and adapters) is a leading enterprise technology provider that supplies InfiniBand-based networking hardware to support high-performance computing and data center environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
high-performance computing hardware
ⓘ
host fabric interface adapter ⓘ network interface card ⓘ |
| category |
HPC interconnect adapter
ⓘ
cluster networking hardware ⓘ |
| connects |
PCI Express bus
ⓘ
linked to:
PCI Express
compute nodes ⓘ server motherboards ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
HPC cluster interconnect network
ⓘ
Omni-Path fabric ⓘ
linked to:
Intel Omni-Path Architecture
|
| designedFor |
HPC interconnects
ⓘ
high-performance computing clusters ⓘ |
| interfaceType | PCI Express adapter ⓘ |
| networkTechnology | Omni-Path ⓘ |
| optimizedFor |
parallel applications
ⓘ
tightly coupled workloads ⓘ |
| provides |
RDMA-style communication capabilities
ⓘ
host-to-fabric connectivity ⓘ |
| purpose |
to enable scalable low-latency node interconnects
ⓘ
to provide high-throughput fabric access for compute nodes ⓘ |
| role |
endpoint interface to Omni-Path fabric
ⓘ
network offload engine for HPC traffic ⓘ |
| supports |
MPI-based applications
ⓘ
high-bandwidth communication ⓘ low-latency communication ⓘ message passing interface workloads ⓘ |
| supportsTopology |
HPC cluster topologies
ⓘ
fat-tree topologies ⓘ |
| targetUsers |
HPC system integrators
ⓘ
enterprise HPC users ⓘ research computing centers ⓘ |
| targetWorkloads |
analytics workloads
ⓘ
modeling workloads ⓘ simulation workloads ⓘ |
| technologyFamily | Intel Omni-Path Architecture ⓘ |
| usedIn |
HPC clusters
ⓘ
data-intensive computing clusters ⓘ scientific computing clusters ⓘ supercomputers ⓘ technical computing environments ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter Description of subject: The Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter is a high-performance network interface card designed to connect compute nodes to Intel’s Omni-Path high-speed interconnect fabric in HPC clusters.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter
linked to: Omni-Path host fabric interface adapter