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IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric

Fibre Channel over Ethernet I/O

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IBM BladeCenter® Open Fabric includes industry-leading InfiniBand switch modules that offer an easy way to manage, high performance InfiniBand networking capabilities for BladeCenter systems. With switch modules from IBM, Cisco, QLogic and Voltaire, you get flexible InfiniBand networking capabilities designed to help your business run better.

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 Infiniband switch modules Product features Bandwidth Compatibility Management
4X InfiniBand Pass-thru module for IBM BladeCenter
4X InfiniBand Pass-thru module for IBM BladeCenter
 Provides the throughput needed for high-performance computing (HPC) environments. 14 4x DDR external ports. Supported on IBM BladeCenter H and HT Chassis. Easy to use management tools.
Cisco Systems 4X InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter
Cisco Systems 4X InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter
 Delivers high-performance, low-latency server switching. 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. Supported on IBM BladeCenter E, T, H and HT Chassis. Integrated with Cisco's latest release of Vframe - server fabric virtualisation software.

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 Infiniband adapters and mezzanines Product features
4X InfiniBand DDR Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter Supports the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) drivers and protocol.

provides 2 4x DDR capable (20 Gbps) InfiniBand ports.

CPU offload of transport operations, end-to-end QoS and congestion control, hardware-based I/O virtualisation and TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload.
Voltaire 4X InfiniBand DDR Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter Software and support from Voltaire and license to use Voltaire GridStack product.

Based on the OFED stack with enhancements and improved support to interface with Voltaire switches and provides 2 4x DDR capable (20 Gbps) InfiniBand ports.

CPU offload of transport operations, end-to-end QoS and congestion control, hardware-based I/O virtualisation and TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload.

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