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