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Cisco InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters
The Cisco
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InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) deliver industry-leading bandwidth
and latency performance to InfiniBand-based server clusters. High performance
computing environments utilizing Cisco InfiniBand HCAs will benefit from increased
cluster efficiency and application productivity, maximizing return on investment (ROI).
As an integral part of the Cisco SFS Family of server fabric switches, the Cisco InfiniBand
HCAs support Message Passing Interface (MPI), IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB), Sockets
Direct Protocol (SDP), and SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP). SDP and SRP use Remote
Direct Memory Access (RDMA) to support the most demanding high-performance
computing and storage applications. In choosing Cisco commercial version of the
OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) stack, our customers benefit from the best
engineering and support teams in the industry. OpenFabrics is the open-source
community development of InfiniBand drivers.
Benefits
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Create high-performance 10 and 20 Gbps inter-connected server clusters
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Use the full performance of PCIe x8 servers (40 Gbps, full-duplex bandwidth)
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Optimize performance of your computing and database clusters
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Implement highly available clusters by connecting both ports of the 2-port HCAs
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Achieve communications up to 100m by connecting to optical transceiver
Features
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Full suite of integrated InfiniBand protocols
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10 and 20 Gbps (4X) InfiniBand ports
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Part of integrated Cisco SFS Family
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Powered ports supporting optical transceivers
Unified Driver Architecture
With the Cisco SFS system architecture, multiple protocols are optimized to run simultaneously on
the same host. For example, parallel databases can communicate between cluster nodes and
application nodes at the same time that storage blocks are accessed while Infiniband RDMA
technology optimizes transactional performance of the system..
Multiprotocol Support
Cisco InfiniBand HCAs support all important InfiniBand protocols necessary to build a server
cluster. These include IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB), Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP), SRP, and
Message Passing Interface (MPI) protocols for Linux and Windows. Both 32- and 64-bit
architectures are supported. This comprehensive protocol support provides flexibility to build
server clusters for a wide range of applications.