Mellanox InfiniBand Blade Switch
Accelerate throughput with InfiniBand blade switches
Mellanox M4001Q QDR InfiniBand Blade SwitchClick here to jump to more pricing!
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 | |
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| Infiniband Blade Switches | |
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Mellanox InfiniBand Blade Switch |
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Mellanox M3601Q Infiniband Switch Blade |
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Mellanox M2401G Infiniband Switch Blade |
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).
- Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.