Specifications

System Capabilities

• Min. / Max. boards: 2 / 16
  • Min. / Max. memory per board: 4 GB / 64 GB
  • Min. / Max. processors per board: 1 / 4
  • Min. / Max. cores per board: 1 / 8
  • Max. memory: 1 TB
  • Max. processors: 64
  • Max. cores: 128
• Fault-Tolerant: Supported, minimum boards: 3

Supported Hardware

• Processors: Intel Xeon
• Systems :
  • Discrete server systems:
    • Dell: PowerEdge 1950 III
    • IBM: System x iDataPlex DX340 / DX360
    • IBM: System x3450
    • Intel: SR1560SF / SR1560SFHS
    • Supermicro: 6015TW-INFB / 6015TW-INFV
      • Boards: X7DWT-INF / X7DWT-INF+
  • Blade-server systems:
    • Dell: PowerEdge M1000e: M600
      
    • IBM: BladeCenter: HS21XM
    • Supermicro: SuperBlade: SBI-7125W-S6
• Backplane:
  • Discrete server systems: Point-to-point InfiniBand link
  • Blade-server systems: InfiniBand switch required
    • Dell: PowerEdge M1000e: Cisco SFS M7000E InfiniBand Blade Switch for Dell M1000e
    • IBM: BladeCenter: Cisco Systems 4X InfiniBand Switch module for IBM BladeCenter (32R1756)
    • Supermicro: SuperBlade: InfiniBand Switch (SBM-IBS-001)
• Backplane interface (HCA):
  • Discrete server systems:
    • Mellanox InfiniHost III Lx (single port: SDR / DDR)
    • Mellanox InfiniHost III Ex (dual port: SDR / DDR)
    • Mellanox ConnectX IB (dual port: SDR / DDR)
    • Integrated solutions support:
      • Intel: SR1560SF / SR1560SFHS: InfiniBand SDR I/O Expansion Module (AXXIBIOMOD)
      • Supermicro: 6015TW-INFB / 6015TW-INFV
        • Boards: X7DWT-INF / X7DWT-INF+: onboard InfiniBand
  • Blade-server systems:
    • Dell: PowerEdge M1000e: M600: Mellanox Infiniband I/O Card for M1000E Series Blade Servers
    • IBM: BladeCenter: HS21XM: Cisco 4X InfiniBand DDR Expansion Card (43W4421)
    • Supermicro: SuperBlade: Mezzanine HCA (AOC-IBH-001)
• I/O Compatibility list:
  • On-board I/O devices
  • LSI SAS/FC/SCSI PCIe HBAs (MPT)
  • LSI Internal RAID adapters (MegaRAID®)

Supported Operating Systems

• Linux OS, kernel level 2.6.11 or later
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5 (RHEL4-5)
• Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10)
• Fedora Core 4/5/6/7 (FC4-7)
• Open SuSE 10 (SUSE10)