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This paper considers an InfiniBand connection between two bwGRiD clusters over a distance of 28 km in day-to-day production use. We discuss the hardware setup of InfiniBand messages converted and transported over a fiber optic connection. The two clusters can be operated as single system image, the batch system will enforce that all nodes for a job are allocated on one side of the cluster. This is...