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SUN INFINIBAND DUAL PORT 4X
QDR PCIE EXPRESSMODULE AND
LOW PROFILE HOST CHANNEL
ADAPTERS M2
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
INDUSTRY-LEADING
BANDWIDTH, LATENCY, AND
EASE OF DEPLOYMENT
FEATURES
Support two form factors: lowprofile PCIe adapter and hotpluggable PCIe
ExpressModule for Sun Fire
and Sun Blade servers
Oracle’s family of Sun PCI Express (PCIe) Quad Data Rate (QDR)
InfiniBand (IB) Host Channel Adapters (HCAs) provides the ultimate
price/performance for both throughput and low latency for servers,
with eight lanes of either low-profile PCIe or modular hot-pluggable
PCIe ExpressModule form factors.
Create high-performance 10
Gb/sec, 20 Gb/sec, and 40
Gb/sec interconnected
clusters
Field-upgradable firmware
BENEFITS
Use the full performance of
Oracle’s PCIe servers and
blades (up to 80 Gb/sec, fullduplex bandwidth)
Optimize performance of your
application and database
clusters
Sun PCIe IB HCAs are key building blocks for designing server and storage solutions.
Overview
Implement highly available
clusters by connecting both
ports of the dual-port HCAs
High fabric bandwidth, low-latency, and RDMA-based network, inter-process
Offers the industry’s lowest
latency data link
leading application performance. InfiniBand, which today delivers 40 Gigabit per
Up to 25% reduction in power
consumption over previous
generation HCAs
communication, and storage protocols have become critical enablers for delivering
second connectivity with application-to-application latencies as low as 1
microsecond, has become a dominant fabric for high performance enterprise
clusters. Its ultra-low latency and near zero CPU utilization for remote data
transfers make InfiniBand an ideal fabric for high performance clustered
applications, delivering extreme IO performance while preserving server resources
for application processing.
As an integral part of Oracle’s portfolio of high performance fabric products, Sun
PCI Express Dual-port Quad Data Rate InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters M2
provide low-latency, high-bandwidth IO services to application clusters running on
Sun servers and storage systems. Service-oriented I/O ensures scalable and granular
quality of service for a converged set of data center applications, in both native
operating system and virtualized server environments. Multiple network and storage
connectivity options on a single Sun PCIe Gen 2.0 IB HCA enhance the deployment
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options and time to solution.
Sun PCIe IB HCAs feature the following attributes:
Hardware based reliable transport
Hardware based reliable multicast
Reliable and unreliable connected
mode
Split header and payload
Extended reliable connected
processing
transport
Multiple send and receive queues
Enhanced atomic operations
Interrupt coalesce
Large send offload
PCIe MSI/MSI-X
Receive-side scaling
RDMA
Sun PCI Express Dual-Port Quad Data Rate InfiniBand Host Channel
Adapter M2 Specifications
Form Factors
Sun InfiniBand Dual Port 4x QDR
PCIe Low Profile Host Channel
Adapter M2
Standard low-profile adapter dimensions
Sun InfiniBand Dual Port 4x QDR
PCIe ExpressModule Host Channel
Adapter M2
Single-wide PCIe ExpressModule (108 mm x
168.2 mm)
OS and Distribution Support
Sun PCIe IB HCAs are components of the Sun server module in which they are
installed. See the list of supported option cards for the applicable server to determine
the relevant operating system support for the server and HCA combination.
Oracle Solaris
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Key Applications
Clustered applications and databases
Oracle RAC
Real-time data distribution and transaction processing (market data)
Cloud and virtual environments
• Technical Computing
PCIe
PCIe Base 2.0 compliant, 1.1 compatible
2.5 GT/sec or 5.0 GT/sec link rate x8 (40 Gb/sec or 80 Gb/sec bidirectional
bandwidth)
Bracket dimensions are PCI CEM compliant: 2.5 in. x 6.6 in.
IB
IBTA v1.2.1-compatible design
16 Million I/O Channels
10 Gb/sec, 20 Gb/sec, or 40 Gb/sec per port
Nine virtual lanes: eight data plus one management
MTU: 4,096 bytes
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Interoperates with IB switches
Protocol Support
RDS, TCP/UDP, IPoIB, SDP, RDS
EoIB, SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA,
uDAPL
MPI
Connections
The low-profile PCIe adapter and PCIe ExpressModule adapter support two 4x IB
ports for connecting IB traffic (QSFP connectors); each 4x port supports 10 Gb/sec
traffic on SDR, 20 Gb/sec traffic on DDR, and 40 Gb/sec on QDR.
Environmental
Operating voltage
12 V, 3.3 V
QDR low-profile PCIe adapter: 9.36 W with passive
copper cable, 13.36 W with optical active cable
Maximum power
QDR PCIe ExpressModule adapter: 10 W with
passive copper cable, 14.7 W with optical active
cable
Temperature
0°C to 55°C
Regulations
Sun PCIe IB HCAs are components of the Sun server module in which they are
installed. See the agency certifications of the applicable server module to determine
the relevant agency approvals for the server module and HCA combination.
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Sun PCIe IB HCAs for Sun
rackmount and blade
Warranty
servers are key building
Visit oracle.com/sun/warranty for Oracle's global warranty support information on
blocks for designing low-
Sun products.
latency, high bandwidth
server and storage
Services
solutions.
Visit oracle.com/sun/services for information on Oracle's service program offerings
for Sun products.
RELATED PRODUCTS
Oracle’s QDR InfiniBand
product line includes
InfiniBand datacenter
switches for 36, 72 and 648
ports.
Contact Us
For more information about Oracle’s family of Sun PCI Express Quad Data Rate
InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters, please visit oracle.com/sun or call
+1.800.786.0404 to speak to an Oracle representative.
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