Chelsio Communications R310E-CXA manual Highlights, Applications, Benefits

Highlights

￿RDMA-enabled NIC (RNIC) specifically optimized for cluster computing

￿Standards-compliant iWARP RDMA plus direct data placement (DDP)

￿Seamlessly runs existing InfiniBand RDMA applications

￿Reduces host CPU utilization by up to 90% compared to NICs without full offload capabilities

￿PCI Express 8x host bus interface

￿Line-rate 10Gbps full-duplex performance

￿Integrated traffic manager, QoS, and virtualization capabilities

￿RNIC-PI, kDAPL, and OpenFabrics 1.2 software interfaces

￿Powerful per-connection, per-server, and per-interface configuration and control

Applications

Data-Center Networking

￿Scale up servers and NAS systems

￿Link servers in multiple facilities to syn- chronize data centers

￿Consolidate LAN, SAN, and cluster networks

High Performance Cluster Computing

￿Very low latency Ethernet

￿Increase cluster fabric bandwidth

￿Deploy Ethernet-only networking for clus- ter fabric, LAN, and SAN

￿Routable infrastructure

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High Performance

10GbE iWARP Adapter

RDMA • TCP/IP • Cluster Computing

CHELSIO’S R310E 10GbE iWARP Adapter is a pro- tocol-offloading 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter with PCI Express host bus interface for servers and storage systems. The third-generation technol- ogy from Chelsio provides the highest 10GbE performance available and dramatically low- ers host-system CPU commu-

nications overhead.

With on-board hardware that offloads iWARP RDMA processing from its host system, the R310E frees up host CPU cycles for useful applications. The system gets increased bandwidth, improved overall performance, and reduced message latency across all applications.

This combination makes it practical to converge other networks that tradi- tionally used niche technologies onto 10GbE. High bandwidth and extremely low latency make 10GbE the best technology for high- performance cluster computing (HPCC) fabrics.

Benefits

By using Chelsio’s R310E, enterprises can cost-effectively connect serv- ers and storage systems directly to the 10GbE backbone over lower-cost CX4 copper or active optical cabling and switching infrastructure.

As an upgrade or alternative to aggregated Gigabit Ethernet links, 10GbE boosts connection bandwidth and simplifies cabling, installation, and main- tenance. The R310E also provides additional bandwidth needed to con- solidate server functions on fewer, more powerful systems – simplifying management and reducing costs for servers, rackspace, power consump- tion, and maintenance.

Applications with large data sets benefit from a high-speed distributed plat- form, including video rendering and distribution, data visualization such as remote medical imaging and climatic modeling, and bioinformatics appli- cations such as DNA sequencing.

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