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Figure 2: PCI Connection

2.1I/O Interfaces

The ConnectX-2 I/O card is VPI-capable, supporting InfiniBand or Ethernet on either port. The following table shows the supported configurations.

Table 4 - VPI Support

Port 1

Port 2

Supported

 

 

 

IB

IB

supported

 

 

 

IB

EN

supported

 

 

 

EN

IB

not supported

 

 

 

EN

EN

supported

 

 

 

2.1.1InfiniBand Interface

The ConnectX-2 VPI adapter card is compliant with the InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Release 1.2.1. It has two compliant QSFP InfiniBand ports, with four Tx/Rx pairs of SerDes con- nected to QSFP connectors.

2.1.2Ethernet Interface

The ConnectX® -2 VPI adapter card is compliant with the IEEE Std 802.3ae Specification. Each port can be connected to a 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch through the use of QSFP to SFP+ hybrid cables.

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