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IBM BladeCenter® Open Fabric is designed to be EASY supporting the communication protocols your business relies on within a management framework that helps you reduce complexity and manage risk. Integrated across all blades, switches and chassis, BladeCenter Open Fabric is the RIGHT choice to simplify blade I/O management and deployment so you can concentrate on realizing innovation in your business.





4X InfiniBand Pass-thru Module for IBM BladeCenter

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4X InfiniBand Pass-thru Module for IBM BladeCenter
Delivers highest chassis throughput and performance in the industry. Especially important in High Performance Computing environments, this modules enables BladeCenter server systems to form high-performance clusters and grids that deliver the performance required to realize the full potential of next-generations applications and systems.
Combined with DDR HCAs, this module provides 14 4x DDR ports of connectivity to blades and 14 4x DDR external ports from the BladeCenter H chassis
Supports Message Passing Interface (MPI), IP over InfiniBand® (IPoIB), and Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP), which use InfiniBand Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) to support the most demanding high-performance computing applications and high-performance database clusters.
Separately available are three DDR HCAs:
  43W4423 — DDR HCA with Open Fabric
  43W4421 — DDR HCA with Cisco Drivers
  43W4420 — DDR HCA with Voltaire Drivers


Part number:   43W4419



Cisco Systems 4X InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter

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Cisco Systems 4X InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter
Delivers high performance, low-latency server switching required to enable BladeCenter server systems to form high-performance clusters and grids that deliver the performance required to realize the full potential of next-generations applications and systems.
Provides 14 ports of 10-Gbps (4X) server connectivity to blades with less than 200 nanoseconds (ns) port to port latency and 8 equivalent 4X external ports from the BladeCenter H chassis
Supports Message Passing Interface (MPI), IP over InfiniBand® (IPoIB), and Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP), which use InfiniBand Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) to support the most demanding high-performance computing applications and high-performance database clusters.
Integrated with Cisco's latest release of Vframe - server fabric virtualization software - which offers rapid provisioning and real time re-hosting of server and network interfaces with policy based utilization and high availability rules.


Part number:   32R1756



QLogic InfiniBand Ethernet Bridge Module for IBM BladeCenter

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QLogic InfiniBand Ethernet Bridge Module for IBM BladeCenter
Enables InfiniBand within the chassis while seamlessly connecting the chassis to the external Ethernet network.
Used in conjunction with the Cisco 4X InfiniBand Switch module and provides up to six 1 Gb Ethernet connections to the external network.
Bridges enable consolidation of LAN and SAN connectivity for an entire data cluster to a single fabric.
Leverages powerful I/O capability of BladeCenter H without any reduction in switching capacity.


Part number:   39Y9207



QLogic InfiniBand Fibre Channel Bridge Module for IBM BladeCenter

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QLogic InfiniBand Fibre Channel Bridge Module for IBM BladeCenter
Enables InfiniBand within the chassis while seamlessly connecting the chassis to the external Fibre Channel fabric.
Used in conjunction with the Cisco 4X InfiniBand Switch module and provides rovides up to six 4 Gb Fibre Channel connections to the external network.
Bridges enable consolidation of LAN and SAN connectivity for an entire data cluster to a single fabric.
Leverages powerful I/O capability of BladeCenter H without any reduction in switching capacity.


Part number:   39Y9211


 
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