- Full QDR rate InfiniBand switching
- Up to 40 Gbps performance for clusters and grids
- Hot swap support, with soft start and current limiting
- Bay address and presence support
- High temperature monitoring
- Fully non-blocking QDR blade
- QSFP front panel connectors
- On board CPU for chassis management capabilities
- Ultra-low latency: under 100 nanoseconds blade to blade connectivity
- Built-in high availability
- Port status controllability
Clients want to increase the use of their existing servers to reduce overall cost as well as the IT footprint within the organization. IBM BladeCenter offers several choices, including servers, chassis, and the types of interconnect fabric. This solution offers end-to-end 40 Gb (4X QDR) InfiniBand connectivity. Clients can take advantage of the resiliency of BladeCenter as well as the performance of 4X QDR InfiniBand in a single package.
The Voltaire 40 Gb InfiniBand Switch Module for BladeCenter provides InfiniBand QDR connectivity between the server platform's high performance blade servers and external InfiniBand fabrics in non-blocking designs, all on a single device. Voltaire's high speed module also accommodates performance-optimized fabric designs utilizing a single BladeCenter chassis or stacking multiple BladeCenter chassis without requiring an external InfiniBand switch.
The InfiniBand switch module offers 14 Gb ports, one to each server, and 16 ports out of the chassis per switch. This solution offers a no compromise, congestion free solution to meet even the most performance hungry applications.