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Intel®’s NetEffect Server Cluster Adapters provide accelerated

10 Gigabit Ethernet processing to benefit some of the most

demanding and latency-sensitive applications, including high

performance computing (HPC) clustering and financial market

data systems. The product line is optimized for scalability to

take advantage of the multi-core environments typically used

with these high performance computing applications.

Ethernet technology, the NetEffect NE020 network controller

provides the protocol processing required to deliver the low-

latency, scalable performance that is required.

iWARP and Kernel-Bypass

The NetEffect Server Cluster Adapters support iWARP, or inter-

net Wide Area RDMA Protocol. iWARP provides a low-latency,

kernel-bypass solution on Ethernet by using RDMA (Remote

Direct Memory Access) semantics. RDMA enables a remote

memory capability that can be abstracted to various application

APIs. iWARP is built on top of the TCP/IP protocol and therefore

provides datacenter-compatible connectivity using standard

network infrastructures. And it works on the standard IP-based

management software and standard Ethernet-based switches

used in datacenters today.

Kernel-bypass (or OS-bypass) is a key element of iWARP because

of the RDMA semantics. But kernel-bypass can be utilized

without iWARP. The NetEffect Server Cluster Adapters support

a mode that implements the bypass operation without the

RDMA protocol. This enables standard APIs, like UDP sockets,

to be used with existing applications while also benefiting from

latency improvements of kernel-bypass.

Both of these modes of operation provide lower latency and

more deterministic latency jitter. The end result is a more ef-

ficient network implementation that delivers more performance

to the application.

Multiple media types are supported:

Connector

Type

Interconnect

Cabling

Maximum

Distance

Notes

CX4 Twinax CX4 Cables 12 meters Copper

SFP+

850 nm Multi-

mode Fiber

300 meters Requires Fiber Optic

transceiver

Twinax Direct

Attach Cables

7 meters Copper

HPC Clustering

High-Performance Computing (HPC) describes a class of com-

puting that extracts the most performance from the cluster’s

compute and fabric resources.

The majority of HPC implementations are now commodity x86

server clusters. In turn, Ethernet and InfiniBand are the prevalent

commodity fabrics of choice.

Workload examples include: Computational Fluid Dynamics,

Computational Chemistry & Material Sciences, Finite Element

Analysis, Bio-Informatics, Climate & Weather Simulation, and

Reservoir Simulation & Visualization.

iWARP provides a low-latency option for Ethernet. NetEffect

Server Cluster adapters deliver an RDMA interface for various

Upper Layer Protocols (ULPs) including Intel-MPI, Microsoft-MPI,

Open-MPI, MVAPICH2, and uDAPL. For Linux, this is provided

through the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) open-

source releases that are adopted from commercial distributors,

like Red Hat*. For Windows*, Microsoft* supports the Network

Direct interface in Windows HPC Server 2008.

Product Brief

NetEffect® Server Cluster Adapter

Network Connectivity

NetEffect® Server Cluster Adapters

Low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters for high-performance apps

Summary of content (3 pages)

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Product Brief NetEffect® Server Cluster Adapter Network Connectivity NetEffect® Server Cluster Adapters Low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters for high-performance apps Intel®’s NetEffect Server Cluster Adapters provide accelerated 10 Gigabit Ethernet processing to benefit some of the most demanding and latency-sensitive applications, including high performance computing (HPC) clustering and financial market data systems.
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Financial Market Data Systems Network-Ready Servers The main performance I/O bottleneck in the financial computing Top PC and server manufacturers offer Intel® adapters in their sector is latency. High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is the best ex- new products. Specify or ask for Intel® Network Connections ample of this – the faster the trade in response to a market trend, with your next PC, server, or mobile PC purchase. For a list of the more the financial opportunity.
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Operating Systems Standards Microsoft* Windows* HPC Server 2008 (via Network Direct) IEEE 802.3-2005: 10GbE, link aggregation, link pause, management Linux* Novell* and Red Hat* (via OFED*) IEEE 802.3ae 10Gb Ethernet over fibre IEEE 802.3ak CX4 Physical & Environmental IEEE 802.1p Priority Encoding Operating temperature: 0 to 60 oC Dimensions Length Width Full-height end bracket: Low-profi le end bracket: 6.6 in. 2.5 in. 4.725 in. 3.12 in. IEEE 802.