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News Release from: SBS Technologies | Subject: IB4X-CPCI-2A InfiniBand HCA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 March 2005
CompactPCI adapter uses InfiniBand
technology
SBS Technologies has developed the industry's first InfiniBand technology 4X dual-port optical-enabled CompactPCI host channel adapter.
SBS Technologies has developed the industry's first InfiniBand technology 4X dual-port optical-enabled CompactPCI host channel adapter (HCA) The IB4X-CPCI-2A InfiniBand HCA is engineered to drive the performance of high-speed InfiniBand fabrics with low CPU utilisation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The HCA's two 4X InfiniBand ports can deliver overall throughput close to 400Mbyte/s.
Configured with 128Mbyte of DDR memory, the IB4X-CPCI-2A provides the high throughput required for embedded data transport applications and high-performance computing clustering (HPCC).
The IB4X-CPCI-2A HCA includes circuitry to detect and power an optional IB4X-OMC media convertor device that allows the HCA to use fibre so users can conveniently select copper or fibre media on a port by port basis.
"With the introduction of an InfiniBand HCA in a CompactPCI form factor to complement our existing InfiniBand products for PMC, PCI, VME, SBS now offers InfiniBand technology on all the primary form factors used in embedded computing", said Bill Molyneux, Vice President of SBS General Purpose I/O Products.
"System engineers can now select from a variety of SBS Technologies' InfiniBand HCAs, switches, management software, and support for several application protocols, to make this technology a reality for high-performance embedded computing applications".
The IB4X-CPCI-2A supports many applications with remote direct memory access (RDMA) capabilities to reduce CPU overhead and free host processors for application use.
RDMA support and InfiniBand technology make a powerful combination for high-performance data networks, computer clustering, telecommunications and data storage traffic.
Application support includes Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) for running over existing TCP applications, Internet Protocol over InfiniBand (IPoIB) to run IP over InfiniBand links, SCSI Remote Protocol (SRP) initiator for storage area networking (SAN), and embedded application support such as video streaming.
The IB4X-CPCI-2A includes drivers for Linux with MPI, SRP, Mirror API, IPoIB, SDP and uDAPL support and Yellow Dog Linux drivers for 64bit PowerPC platforms.
VxWorks drivers with Mirror API for real time embedded applications are also available.
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