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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 

Voltaire 40Gb InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter

 

Highest bandwidth and lowest latency solution.

Provides fourteen 40 Gb ports to each server and sixteen ports out of the chassis per switch and enables scaling from 14 to 126 nodes with latency less than 200 nanoseconds.

Supported on IBM BladeCenter H chassis.

SNMP management interface to AMM.

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.

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Infiniband adapters and mezzanines Product features

2-Port 40Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter

When combined with the Voltaire 40Gb InfiniBand switch module, this adapter delivers end-to-end 40Gb bandwidth per port.

Based on proven Mellanox ConnectX IB technology for low latency, high bandwidth performance for server and storage clustering applications in high performance computing.

The adapter uses the CFFh form factor and can be combined to with a CIOv adapter to get additional SAS, Fibre Channel or Ethernet ports.

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 virtualization 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 virtualization and TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload.

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