
• Many IB vendors: Mellanox+Voltaire and Qlogic
– Aligned with many server vendors: Intel, IBM, SUN, Dell
– And many integrators: Appro, Advanced Clustering, Microway
• Broadly two kinds of adapters
– Offloading (Mellanox) and Onloading (Qlogic)
• Adapters with different interfaces:
– Dual port 4X with PCI-X (64 bit/133 MHz), PCIe x8, PCIe 2.0 and HT
• MemFree Adapter
– No memory on HCA Uses System memory (through PCIe)
– Good for LOM designs (Tyan S2935, Supermicro 6015T-INFB)
• Different speeds
– SDR (8 Gbps), DDR (16 Gbps) and QDR (32 Gbps)
• Some 12X SDR adapters exist as well (24 Gbps each way)
• New ConnectX-2 adapter from Mellanox supports offload for
collectives (Barrier, Broadcast, etc.)
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