Server Adapters: Voltaire Host Channel Adapters (HCAs)

Single/ Dual-Port QDR and DDR InfiniBand HCA Cards 

The HCA 4X0/5X0/6X0 product family is a complete set of high-performance 4X InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) cards that enable industry-standard servers to access the full performance of high-speed (20–40 Gb/s) InfiniBand fabrics, with latency as low as 1 microsecond. HCAs support the industry’s widest variety of host interfaces, InfiniBand rates and upper-layer protocols to meet the requirements of a broad range of applications and computing environments.

Powerful Applications

Voltaire HCAs support network, cluster and storage connectivity over an InfiniBand fabric and feature device drivers for Linux and Microsoft Windows. They also include Voltaire’s OFED support for Linux and Voltaire WinOF support for Windows, a comprehensive suite of upper layer protocols that enable high performance computing clusters, utility computing, grids and enterprise data center applications including VMware and Oracle 11g.

Voltaire OFED Support for Linux & Windows

Voltaire host software is a comprehensive set of drivers and protocols that enable any application to utilize the exceptional performance of RDMA which is enabled in the hardware. Voltaire host software allows both HPC and enterprise applications to run significantly faster leveraging InfiniBand’s high bandwidth with minimal latency and reduced CPU utilization.

Using Voltaire host software, InfiniBand appears to the user as a standard IP network with IP addressing, TCP/IP protocols, RDMA protocols, network booting and IP management for easy deployment and maintenance. Supported protocols include MPI, SDP, IPoIB and iSER.

HCA 700EX2-Q PCI-EX 2 Gen 2

Overview

Dual port 4X 40Gb/s Infiniband Host Channel Adapter (HCA) cards deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth for performance-driven server and storage clustering applications in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. Clustered data bases, parallelized applications, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation. The card simplifies network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, storage, and management I/O and providing enhanced performance in virtualized server environments.

Key Features:

• QDR
• PCI Express -II gen 2
• Memory Free
• ConnectX2 IB
• Dual Port

HCA 600EX2-Q PCI-EX 2 Gen 2

Overview

Dual port 4X 40Gb/s Infiniband Host Channel Adapter (HCA) cards deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth for performance-driven server and storage clustering applications in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. Clustered data bases, parallelized applications, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation. The card simplifies network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, storage, and management I/O and providing enhanced performance in virtualized server environments.

Key Features:

• QDR
  
• PCI Express –II gen 2
  
• Memory free
  
• ConnectX IB 
• Dual port

HCA 520EX2-D PCI-EX 2 Gen 2

Overview

Dual port 4X 20Gb/s Infiniband Host Channel Adapter (HCA) cards deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth for performance-driven server and storage clustering applications in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. Clustered data bases, parallelized applications, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation. The card simplifies network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, storage, and management I/O and providing enhanced performance in virtualized server environments.

Key Features:

• DDR
• PCI Express –II gen 2
• Memory free
• ConnectX IB
• Dual port

HCA 500EX-D PCI-EX 2 Gen 1

Overview

Dual port 4X 20Gb/s Infiniband Host Channel Adapter (HCA) cards deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth for performance-driven server and storage clustering applications in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. Clustered databases, parallelized applications, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation. The card simplifies network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, storage, and management I/O and providing enhanced performance in virtualized server environments.

Key Features:

• DDR
• PCI Express –II gen 1
• Memory free
• ConnectX IB
• Dual port

HCA 400EX-D

Overview

Dual-port 4X 20Gb/s InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) cards connects to the host system through a PCI Express x8 interface. The card delivers the most cost effective 20Gb/s solution available and features remote direct memory access (RDMA), hardware transport, and advanced per queue pair (QP) QoS services.

Key Features:

• DDR
• PCI Express
• 128 Mb memory
• InfiniHost III Ex
• Dual port

HCA 410EX-D

Overview

Single-port 20Gb/s 4X InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) card connects to the host system through a PCI Express interface. The card delivers the most cost effective 20Gb/s solution available and features remote direct memory access (RDMA), hardware transport, and advanced per queue pair (QP) QoS services.

Key Features:

• DDR
• PCI Express
• Memory Free
• InfiniHost III Lx
• Single port