Q-Logic IB0056101-00 G manual Feature Overview, What’s New in this Release, Description

2 Feature Overview

This section contains the features for this release, the supported QLogic adapter models, supported distributions and kernels, and a list of the software components.

What’s New in this Release

This release adds support for the QLE7240 and QLE7280 InfiniBand DDR Host

Channel Adapters (HCAs), which offer twice the link bandwidth of SDR HCAs. The extra bandwidth improves performance for both latency-sensitive and bandwidth-intensive applications.

This version of the InfiniPath software provides support for all of the QLogic HCAs in Table 2-1.

	Table 2-1. QLogic Adapter Model Numbers
QLogic Model		Description
Number
QHT7040		Single port 10Gbps SDR 4X InfiniBand to HTX adapter. For
		systems with HTX expansion slots.
QHT7140 a		Single port 10Gbps SDR 4X InfiniBand to HTX adapter. For
		systems with HTX expansion slots.
QLE7140		Single port 10Gbps SDR 4X InfiniBand to PCI Express x8
		adapter. Supported on systems with PCI Express (PCIe) x8 or
		x16 slots.
QLE7240		Single port 20Gbps DDR 4X InfiniBand to PCI Express x8
		adapter. Supported on systems with PCI Express x8 or
		x16 slots.

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