Overview - 4X DDR expansion cards - IBM BladeCenter

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InfiniBand host channel adapter (HCA) cards deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth for performance driven server and storage clustering applications in enterprise data centers, high performance computing, and embedded environments. Clustered databases, parallelized applications, transactional services and high performance embedded I/O applications will potentially achieve significant performance improvements helping reduce completion time and lower cost per operation. These new HCAs simplify network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, and management I/O and helps provide enhanced performance in virtualized server environments.

These new HCAs simplify network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, and management I/O, and helps provide enhanced performance in virtualized server environments.

Key features:

• 1.2us MPI ping latency
• Two 4X DDR capable (20 GB/s) InfiniBand ports; support auto-negotiation to SDR
• CPU offload of transport operations
• END-TO-END QOS and congestion controls
• Hardware-based I/O virtualization
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
• Based on Mellanox's new ConnectX InfiniBand to PCI-Express bridge
• Supportes the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) drivers and protocol support
• Support for CISCO's and Voltaire's drivers stacks

The 4X DDR expansion cards are supported on the following IBM platforms:

• IBM BladeCenter H (8852)

See ServerProven for all parts that are compatible with this system.

Linux

• RHEL 4 AS, ES
• RHEL 4 AS, ES 64-bit
• RHEL 5 SE
• RHEL 5 SE 64-bit
• SUSE Linux ES 10 (SLES 10)
• SUSE Linux ES 10 64-bit (SLES 10)

1 Year limited - customer replaceable unit (CRU)

• Approximate height: 29.5 mm (1.16 in)
• Approximate width: 118.1 mm (4.65 in)
• Approximate depth: 276.4 mm (10.88 in)
• Approximate weight: .794 kg (1.75 lb)

Temperature

• Operating:
  • 10 to 52 degrees C (50 to 125.6 F) at an altitude of 0 to 914 M (0 to 3,000 FT)
  • 10 to 49 dregrees C (50 to 120.2 F) at an altitude of 0 to 3 000 M (0 to 10,000 FT)
• Non-operating:
  • - 40 to 65 degrees C (-40 to 149 F) at an altitude of 0 to 12 000 M (0 to 39,370 FT)

Humidity

• Operating:
  • 8% to 80%, noncondensing
• Non-operating:
  • 5% to 80%, noncondensing

Safety Certifications:

• US: UL 60950-1 LISTED ACCESSORY REPORT
• CANADA: CAN/CSA C22.2 NO. 60950-1-03
• IEC 60950-1/EN 60950-1 CB REPORT AND CERTIFICATE
• GOST R IEC 60950-2002 IS VOLUNTARY AND IS ROUTINELY REQUESTED BY IBM-RUSSIA TO FACILITATE IMPORTATION.

EMC/EMI Certifications:

• FCC - TITLE 47 CFR PART 15 SUBPART B
• CANADA - ICES-003
• AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND - C-TICK - AS/NZS CISPR 22 CLASS A
• CE MARK - EN55022:1998+A2:2003 AND EN55024:1998+A1:2001+A2:2003
• VCCI - JAPAN VCCI APRIL 2003
• MIC NOTICE NO. 2001-115 AND NO. 2001-116 (KOREA)
• GOST 29216-91 (RUSSIA )
• CISPR 22 CLASS A
• TAIWAN BSMI - CNS 13438
• TURKEY COMMUNIQUE NO. 2004/9 AND NO. 2004/22
• SAUDI ARABIA - EMC.CVG, 28 OCTOBER 2002
• CHINA - GB 9524:1998