InfiniBand Blade Switch I/O Module for PowerEdge M-Series
1 Overview
Rev 1.0
The SwitchX M4001F 56 Gb/s, and the M4001Q 40 Gb/s InfiniBand blade switch I/O module for the PowerEdge M-Series chassis provides a high bandwidth, low latency fabric for Enterprise Data Centers (EDC), High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Embedded environments. Based on the
5th generation InfiniBand switch device (1st Generation SwitchX). This I/O module (IOM) deliv- ers up to 56Gb/s at FDR speed and 40 Gb/s at QDR speed full bisectional bandwidth per port. When used in conjunction with ConnectX®-3 InfiniBand dual port Mezzanine I/O cards, clustered data bases, parallelized applications and transactional services applications these switches will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation.
The I/O module comes pre-installed with all necessary firmware, and configured for standard operation within an InfiniBand fabric, and only requires an InfiniBand compliant Subnet Manager running from one of the hosts. All that is required for normal operation is to follow the usual pre- cautions for installation and connection from the switch to the HCAs or other switches. Once con- nected, the Subnet Management software automatically configures the switch and begins utilizing the switch.
It is recommended that Mellanox OpenFabrics software package be installed on all nodes con- nected to the M4001[F, Q]. The software package provides a subnet manager and network man- agement tools as well as connectivity software for servers and storage, and is available on the Mellanox web site. See Chapter 3 for more information.
Basic installation, hot-swapping components and hardware maintenance is covered in “Installation and Basic Operation” on page 11.
The M4001F and M4001Q switches have a Hot Swap controller and a PSOC Management IC.
