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

BladeCenter

Product Guide (withdrawn product)

The 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter is a dual port InfiniBand Host Channel

Adapter (HCA) based on proven Mellanox ConnectX IB technology. This HCA, when combined with the QDR

switch, delivers end-to-end 40 Gb bandwidth per port. This solution is ideal for low latency, high bandwidth,

performance-driven server and storage clustering applications in a High Performance Compute environment. The

adapter uses the CFFh form factor and can be combined with a CIOv or CFFv adapter to get additional SAS,

Fibre Channel, or Ethernet ports.

Figure 1 shows the expansion card.

Figure 1. 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter

Did you know?

InfiniBand is a scalable high performance fabric that was used for Petascale computing. Roadrunner is the largest

supercomputer of the world, breaking the barrier of 1000 trillion operations per second. Roadrunner is based on

Mellanox ConnectX DDR adapters. QDR is the next generation, which offers twice the bandwidth per port.

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Summary of content (8 pages)

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2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter Product Guide (withdrawn product) The 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter is a dual port InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) based on proven Mellanox ConnectX IB technology. This HCA, when combined with the QDR switch, delivers end-to-end 40 Gb bandwidth per port.
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Part number information Table 1 shows the part numbers to order the 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter. Table 1.
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Operating environment 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter supports the following environment: Temperature 10 to 52 °C (50 to 125.6 F) at an altitude of 0 to 914 m (0 to 3,000 ft) 10 to 49 °C (50 to 120.2 F) at an altitude of 0 to 3000 m (0 to 10,000 ft) Relative humidity 8% to 80% (noncondensing) Supported servers and I/O modules Table 2 lists the BladeCenter servers that the 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card for BladeCenter supports. Table 2.
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Table 3 lists the I/O modules that can be used to connect to the 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter. The I/O modules listed in Table 3 are supported in BladeCenter H chassis only. Table 3. I/O modules supported with the 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) I/O module Part number Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Module 46M6005 N N Y N N N N In BladeCenter H, the ports of CFFh cards are routed through the midplane to I/O bays 7, 8, 9, and 10, as shown in Figure 3.
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Expansion card I/O bay 7 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) I/O bay 8 I/O bay 9 Supported I/O module* I/O bay 10 Supported I/O module* * A single Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Module occupies two adjacent high-speed bays (7 and 8 or 9 and 10) while expansion cards have only two ports--one port per one InfiniBand module.
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Operating system support The 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) supports the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x86 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web x64 Edi
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