IBM 2-Port 40Gb InfiniBand CFFh
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1. 8852 BladeCenter H 46M6005 Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Module 49Y9980 3 m Copper QDR InfiniBand QSFP Cable Up to 32 The Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Module has 16 external ports To communicate outside of the chassis you must have QSFP cables connected You have the flexibility to expand bandwidth using from one to 16 connections per switch 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 6 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 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web x86 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS for AMD64 EM64T Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS for x86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Edition SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 EM64T Support for operating systems is based on the combination of the expansion card and the blade server in which it is installed See IBM ServerProven for the latest information about the specific versions and service packs supported http2. for IBM BladeCenter 1 Part number information Table 1 shows the part numbers to order the 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter Table 1 Part number and feature code for ordering 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 46M6001 0056 The part number includes the following items e One 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh e Documentation CD ROM e Important Notices flyer Features and specifications The 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter includes the following features and specifications e 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 tus MPI ping latency CPU offload of transport operations End to end QoS and congestion control TCP UDP IP stateless offload e Enhanced InfiniBand features Hardware based reliable transport Hardware based reliable multicast Extended Reliable Connected transport Enhanced Atomic operations Fine grained end to end QoS e Hardware based I O virtualization features Single Root IOV Address tr
3. ul ye Ca Redbooks web Doc 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter IBM BladeCenter at a glance guide The 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM 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 ClOv or CFFv adapter to get additional SAS Fibre Channel or Ethernet ports Figure 1 shows the expansion card lt lt lt E t a ee _ i S e e lt n _ _ _ __ m Figure 1 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM 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 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh
4. Consult ServerProven to see which chassis each blade server type is Supported in http ibm com servers eserver serverproven compat us Table 3 lists the I O modules that can be used to connect to the 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM 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 Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Module 46M6005 cc CCC 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 BladeCenter T BladeCenter HT BladeCenter BladeCenter E BladeCenter H k un 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 4 Blade Server 14 3 Blade Server 1 On Board 1Gb Pa a Expansion cards Legend standard lO bays connectons High speed I O bays connections Bridge modules VO bays connections Mid Plane Figure 3 IBM BladeCenter H I O topology showing the I O paths from CFFh expansion cards One I O module must be installed in the chassis for each 4X InfiniBand port that you wish to use on the expansion card The specific I O bays in the chassis are listed in Table 4 For the 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh you should install an I O module in I O bays 7 8 and 9 10 that is two I O modules each of them occupies two adjacent high speed slots Table 4 L
5. anslation and protection Multiple queues per virtual machine VMware NetQueue support 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 2 e Protocol support Open MPI OSU MVAPICH HP MPI Intel MPI MS MPI Scali MPI e IPoIB SDP RDS e SRP iSER FCoIB and NFS RDMA Operating environment 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter supports the following environment e Temperature e 10to 52 C 50 to 125 6 F at an altitude of 0 to 914 m 0 to 3 000 ft e 10 to 49 C 50 to 120 2 F at an altitude of 0 to 3000 m 0 to 10 000 ft e Relative humidity e 8 to 80 noncondensing Supported servers and O modules Table 2 lists the IBM BladeCenter servers that the 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter supports Table 2 Supported servers Expansion card w ition m fa m 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 3 Figure 2 shows where the CFFh card is installed in a BladeCenter server ClOv connector for further VO expansion High speed connector to bays 7 amp 5 High speed connector to bays 9 amp 10 CFFh connector under CFFh expansion card the expansion card Figure 2 Location on the BladeCenter server planar where the CFFh card is installed IBM BladeCenter chassis support is based on the blade server type in which the expansion card is installed
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7. ibm com servers eserver serverproven compat us Select the blade server and then select the expansion card to see the supported operating systems Related publications For more information refer to the following documents 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter Installation and User s Guide http www ibm com support Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Module Installation Guide http www ibm com support IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Guide http www ibm com support docview wss uid psg 1MIGR 5073016 IBM Redbooks publication BM BladeCenter Products and Technology SG24 7523 http www redbooks ibm com abstracts sg24 523 html 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter Notices This information was developed for products and services offered in the U S A IBM may not offer the products services or features discussed in this document in other countries Consult your local IBM representative for information on the products and services currently available in your area Any reference to an IBM product program or service is not intended to state or imply that only that IBM product program or service may be used Any functionally equivalent product program or service that does not infringe any IBM intellectual property right may be used instead However it is the user s responsibility to evaluate and verify the operation of any non IBM product program or service IBM may have patent
8. ocations of I O modules required to connect to the expansion card Expansion card I O bay 7 I O bay 8 I O bay 9 I O bay 10 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card Supported I O module Supported I O module CFFh 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 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh for IBM BladeCenter 5 Popular configurations Figure 4 shows the use of Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Module to route two 4X InfiniBand ports from 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh installed into each server Two Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Modules are installed in bays 7 8 and bays 9 10 of the BladeCenter H chassis All connections between the expansion cards and the switch modules are internal to the chassis No cabling is needed IEM BladeCenter server BM BladeCenter H chassis Figure 4 A 40 Gb solution using 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh and Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Modules Table 5 lists he components that this configuration uses Table 5 Components used when connecting 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh to two Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Modules Diagram Part Description Quantity reference number machine type IBM BladeCenter HS22 or other supported server 46M6001 2 Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card CFFh server
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