A mechanism for allowing a single physical IB node to virtualize a plurality of host channel adapters is provided. This includes providing the appearance of both a router and multiple virtual HCA's residing behind that router, to the external REAL subnet components. Each virtual host channel adapter...http://www.google.de/patents/US20030061379?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20030061379 - End node partitioning using virtualization
