Mellanox InfiniBand Blade Switch
Accelerate throughput with InfiniBand blade switches

Overview:

Enable high bandwidth and low latency across InfiniBand-connected server nodes in your M1000e blade chassis high-performance computing (HPC) cluster.

• Single-wide switches occupy only one slot, leaving availability for fabric redundancy.
• InfiniBand™ Trade Association (IBTA) management support allows easy management through any IBTA-compliant subnet manager.
• Non-blocking throughput is enabled through 16 dedicated internal and 16 external ports.

Add high-bandwidth, low-latency InfiniBand switches to your Dell M1000e blade chassis.

Get the most data throughput available in a Dell M1000e blade chassis with a Mellanox InfiniBand blade switch. Designed for low-latency and high-bandwidth applications in high performance computing (HPC) and high-performance data center environments, InfiniBand switches offer 16 internal and 16 external ports to help eliminate the bottlenecks common to other switch designs.

Choose from three single-wide Mellanox InfiniBand blade switches, each offering non-blocking throughput and IBTA management compatibility:

Mellanox M4001Q QDR InfiniBand Blade Switch
Per-port bit rate: 40 Gb/s
Per-port data throughput: 32 Gb/s

Mellanox M4001T FDR10 InfiniBand Blade Switch
Per-port bit rate: 41.25 Gb/s
Per-port data throughput: 40 Gb/s

Mellanox M4001F FDR InfiniBand Blade Switch
Per-port bit rate: 56.25 Gb/s
Per-port data throughput: 54.54 Gb/s

Infiniband Blade Switches:

Dell Networking Products
Infiniband Blade Switches
	Mellanox InfiniBand Blade Switch Enable high bandwidth and low latency across InfiniBand-connected server nodes in your M1000e blade chassis high-performance computing (HPC) cluster.
	Mellanox M3601Q Infiniband Switch Blade Ultra-high bandwidth and low latency demands for enterprise data centers and high-performance-computing (HPC) environments.
	Mellanox M2401G Infiniband Switch Blade High bandwidth, low latency and low power demands for enterprise data centers and high-performance-computing (HPC) environments.

Specifications:

Legend: S — Standard, OA — Option Available, N — Not Available

	Mellanox M4001Q QDR	Mellanox M4001T FDR10	Mellanox M4001F FDR
Port Attributes
Port Attributes	32 auto-negotiating 10, 20, 40Gb/s fully nonblocking InfiniBand ports; 16 internal server ports; up to 16 external QSFP connector ports for use with uplink cables	32 auto-negotiating 10, 20, 40Gb/s fully nonblocking InfiniBand ports; 16 internal server ports; up to 16 external QSFP connector ports for use with uplink cables	32 auto-negotiating 10, 20, 40, 56Gb/s fully nonblocking InfiniBand ports; 16 internal server ports; up to 16 external QSFP connector ports for use with uplink cables
Passive copper cable	S	S	S
Optical media adapter and active cable support	S	S	S
Port and system status LED indicators	S	S	S
Per port status LEDs: Link, activity	S	S	S
System status LEDs: System status, power	S	S	S
Performance
Simultaneous wire-speed any port to any port	S	S	S
Single port transmit and receive bit rate	40.0Gb/s	41.25Gb/s	56.25Gb/s
Single port transmit and receive effective data rate	32.0Gb/s	40.0Gb/s	54.54Gb/s
Total switching bandwidth	2.560Tb/s	2.560Tb/s	3.584Tb/s
Quality of Service
Fine grained end-to-end QoS	S	S	S
Advanced scheduling engine supports quality of service for up to 9 traffic classes 9 virtual lanes	S	S	S
8 data	S	S	S
1 management	S	S	S
Other Switching
IBTA Specification	1.21 compliant	N	1.3 compliant
Integrated subnet manager agent	S	S	S
Linear forwarding table	S	S	S
256 to 4Kb MTU	S	S	S
48K entry linear forwarding data base	S	S	S
Hot-swappable, enabling expansion without server interruption	S	S	S
Adaptive routing	S	S	S
Management
Diagnostic and debug tools	S	S	S
Port mirroring	S	S	S
Unmanaged switch supports OpenSM or third-party subnet managers	S	S	S
Dimensions
Height x Width x Depth	272.54 x 29.45 x 255.02 mm	272.54 x 29.45 x 255.02 mm	272.54 x 29.45 x 255.02 mm
Inches	10.73 x 1.16 x 10.04 in.	10.73 x 1.16 x 10.04 in.	10.73 x 1.16 x 10.04 in.

Note: Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software stack contains a subnet manager along with switch management tools

Documentation:

Download the Dell PowerEdge M Series Blades IO Guide Datasheet (PDF).