InfiniBand FDR QSFP Specifications
• Connectivity:
- Interoperable with InfiniBand or 40GbE switches
- Passive copper cable with ESD protection
• InfiniBand:
- IBTA Specification 1.2.1 compliant
- Hardware-based congestion control
- 256 to 4Kbyte MTU, 2GB messages
• Enhanced InfiniBand:
- Hardware-based reliable transport
- Collective operations offloads
- Hardware-based reliable multicast
- Extended Reliable Connected transport
- Enhanced Atomic operations
• Ethernet:
- IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE Std 802.3ad Link Aggregation
- IEEE Std 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
- IEEE Std 802.1Q, .1P VLAN tags and priority
- IEEE P802.1bb D1.0 Priority-based Flow Control
- IEEE 1588
- Jumbo frame support (9600B)
• Hardware-based I/O Virtualization:
- Single Root IOV
- Address translation and protection
- Dedicated adapter resources
- Multiple queues per virtual machine
- Enhanced QoS for vNICs
- VMware NetQueue support
• Overlay Networks:
- VXLAN and NVGRE
• Additional CPU Offloads:
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet
- TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
- Intelligent interrupt coalescence
• FlexBoot™ Technology:
- Remote boot over InfiniBand
- Remote boot over Ethernet
- Remote boot over iSCSI
• Protocol Support:
- Open MPI, OSU MVAPICH, Intel MPI, MS
- MPI, Platform MPI
- TCP/UDP, EoIB, IPoIB, RDS
- SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA
- uDAPL
• Operating System Support:
- Citrix XenServer 6.1
- RHEL/CentOS 5.X and 6.X, Novell SLES10 SP4; SLES11 SP1,
SLES 11 SP2, OEL, Fedora 14, 15, 17, Ubuntu 12.04
- Windows Server 2008/2012/2012 R2
- FreeBSD
- OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF)
- VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x
GbE RJ45 Specifications
• Ethernet and Virtualization Features:
- PC-SIG SR-IOV support
- Jumbo Frames support
• Performance and Efficiency Features:
- Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
- TCP/UDP, IPv4 and IPv6 checksum offloads to improve CPU
usage
- Low Latency Interrupts
• Management Features:
- Asset Management support on Supermicro® platforms
- Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
-
iSCSI Remote Boot Support
- NC-SI for Remote Management via Intel® i350 GbE RJ45
connector
• Operating System Support:
- Windows
Server 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2 (x64 Edition)
- Windows 8.1, 8, 7 (x64 Edition)
- RedHat Linux
- SUSE Linux
- FreeBSD
- UEFI
- VMware