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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. Part number and feature code for ordering
Description Part number Feature codes
2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter 46M6001* 0056
* Withdrawn from marketing
The part number includes the following items:
One 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh)
Documentation package
Features and specifications
The 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) for BladeCenter includes the following features and
specifications:
The 2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card features include:
Form-factor: CFFh
Host interface: PCI-E x8 Gen 2 (5.0GT/s): 40+40 Gbps bidirectional bandwidth
Dual 4X InfiniBand ports at speeds 10 Gbps, 20 Gbps, or 40 Gbps per port
6.5 GBps bidirectional performance
RDMA, Send/Receive semantics
Hardware-based congestion control
Atomic operations
16 million I/O channels
256 to 4 Kb MTU
1 GB messages
9 virtual lanes: 8 data + 1 management
1us MPI ping latency
CPU offload of transport operations
End-to-end QoS and congestion control
TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
Enhanced InfiniBand features
Hardware-based reliable transport
Hardware-based reliable multicast
Extended Reliable Connected transport
Enhanced Atomic operations
Fine grained end-to-end QoS
Hardware-based I/O virtualization features
Single Root IOV
Address translation and protection
Multiple queues per virtual machine
VMware NetQueue support
Protocol support
Open MPI, OSU MVAPICH, HP MPI, Intel MPI, MS MPI, Scali MPI
IPoIB, SDP, RDS
SRP, iSER, FCoIB and NFS RDMA
Operating environment
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