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Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter

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Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter

Lenovo Press Product Guide

The Flex System™ IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter delivers low latency and high bandwidth for 

performance-driven server clustering applications in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing 

(HPC), and embedded environments. The adapter is designed to operate at InfiniBand FDR speeds (56 

Gbps or 14 Gbps per lane). Clustered databases, parallelized applications, transactional services, and 

high-performance embedded I/O applications potentially achieve significant performance improvements, 

helping to reduce completion time and lower the cost per operation. The Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR 

InfiniBand Adapter simplifies network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, and 

management I/O, and helps provide enhanced performance in virtualized server environments.

Figure 1 shows the Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter. 

Figure 1. Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter

Did you know?

Mellanox InfiniBand adapters deliver industry-leading bandwidth with ultra-low, sub-microsecond latency 

for performance-driven server clustering applications. Combined with the IB6131 InfiniBand Switch, your 

organization can achieve efficient computing by off-loading from the CPU protocol processing and data 

movement overhead, such as Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Send/Receive semantics, 

allowing more processor power for the application. Advanced acceleration technology enables more than 

90M Message Passing Interface (MPI) messages per second, making it a highly scalable adapter 

delivering cluster efficiency and scalability to tens-of-thousands of nodes.

Summary of Contents for Flex System IB6132

Page 1: ...etwork deployment by consolidating clustering communications and management I O and helps provide enhanced performance in virtualized server environments Figure 1 shows the Flex System IB6132 2 port FDR InfiniBand Adapter Figure 1 Flex System IB6132 2 port FDR InfiniBand Adapter Did you know Mellanox InfiniBand adapters deliver industry leading bandwidth with ultra low sub microsecond latency for ...

Page 2: ... With the ConnectX 3 based adapter highly compute intensive tasks running on hundreds or thousands of multiprocessor nodes such as climate research molecular modeling and physical simulations can share data and synchronize faster resulting in shorter run times High frequency transaction applications are able to access trading information more quickly making sure that the trading servers are able t...

Page 3: ...0 Gb s per lane Fourteen Data Rate FDR 56 Gb s 14 Gb s per lane PCI Express 3 0 x8 host interface up to 8 gigatransfers per second GT s bandwidth CPU off load of transport operations CORE Direct application off load GPUDirect application off load End to end QoS and congestion control Hardware based I O virtualization Transmission Control Protocol TCP User Datagram Protocol UDP Internet Protocol IP...

Page 4: ...rt FDR InfiniBand Adapter 90Y3454 Y N Y Y Y Y N Y N N N N See ServerProven at the following web address for the latest information about the expansion cards that are supported by each blade server type http ibm com servers eserver serverproven compat us I O adapter cards are installed in the slot in supported servers such as the x240 as highlighted in the following figure Figure 2 Location of the ...

Page 5: ...6 Gbps you must also install the FDR Upgrade license 90Y3462 Table 3 I O modules supported with the IB6132 2 port FDR InfiniBand Adapter Description Part number Flex System IB6131 InfiniBand Switch 90Y3450 Flex System IB6131 InfiniBand Switch FDR Upgrade 90Y3462 This license allows the switch to support FDR speeds The following table shows the connections between adapters installed in the compute ...

Page 6: ... the following 64 bit operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition Red Hat Enterpr...

Page 7: ...ZS CISPR 22 2006 Class A IEC 60950 1 CB Certificate and CB Test Report Taiwan BSMI CNS13438 Class A Korea KN22 Class A KN24 Russia GOST ME01 IEC 60950 1 GOST R 51318 22 99 GOST R 51318 24 99 GOST R 51317 3 2 2006 GOST R 51317 3 3 99 IEC 60950 1 CB Certificate and CB Test Report CE Mark EN55022 Class A EN60950 1 EN55024 EN61000 3 2 and EN61000 3 3 CISPR 22 Class A Physical specifications The dimens...

Page 8: ...parts that are used in the configuration This configuration includes the FDR upgrade license for the IB6131 switch as well as the FDR cables Table 5 Components used when connecting the IB6132 2 port FDR InfiniBand Adapter to the IB6131 InfiniBand Switches Part number machine type Description Quantity 8737 Flex System x240 Compute Node 1 to 14 90Y3454 IB6132 2 port FDR InfiniBand Adapter 1 per serv...

Page 9: ...xsys information Flex System Interoperability Guide http www redbooks ibm com fsig Flex System Products and Technology by Lenovo SG24 8255 http www redbooks ibm com abstracts sg248255 html Open IBM Configurator for e business e config http ibm com services econfig System x and Cluster Solutions configurator x config http ibm com products hardware configurator americas bhui asit System x Configurat...

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