Lenovo Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter
Improving Application Performance
The Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter and Mellanox ConnectX-3 Mezz FDR 2-Port InfiniBand Adapter deliver low latency and high bandwidth for performance-driven server clustering applications in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing (HPC), and embedded environments. The adapter is designed to operate at InfiniBand FDR speeds (56 Gbps or 14 Gbps per lane).
Clustered databases, parallelized applications, transactional services, and high-performance embedded I/O applications potentially achieve significant performance improvements, helping to reduce completion time and lower the cost per operation. These Mellanox ConnectX-3 adapters simplify network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, and management I/O, and helps provide enhanced performance in virtualized server environments.
Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR InfiniBand Adapter
Enables high-speed InfiniBand connectivity for x86 compute nodes. Supports RDMA and RoCE technologies. Accelerates application performance and provides low latency for specialized applications.
The Power to Run HPC Applications
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 technology provides a high level of throughput performance for all network environments Servers can achieve up to 56 GBps transmit and receive bandwidth.
- Hardware-based InfiniBand transport and IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) stateless off-load engines handle the segmentation, reassembly, and checksum calculations.
- RDMA over the InfiniBand fabric further accelerates application run time while reducing CPU utilization.
- RDMA allows very high-volume transaction-intensive applications typical of HPC.
- In data mining or web crawl applications, RDMA provides the needed boost in performance to search.
- Resource allocation per application or per VM is provided by the advanced quality of service (QoS) supported by ConnectX-3.
- Service levels for multiple traffic types can be assigned on a per flow basis.
Did You Know?
Mellanox InfiniBand adapters deliver industry-leading bandwidth with ultra-low, sub-microsecond latency for performance-driven server clustering applications. Combined with the IB6131 InfiniBand Switch, your organization can achieve efficient computing by off-loading from the CPU protocol processing and data movement overhead, such as Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Send/Receive semantics, allowing more processor power for the application. Advanced acceleration technology enables more than 90M Message Passing Interface (MPI) messages per second, making it a highly scalable adapter delivering cluster efficiency and scalability to tens-of-thousands of nodes.
Tech Specs
Supported Servers:
- Flex System IB6132 2-port FDR Infiniband Adapter
- ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-3 Mezz FDR 2-Port InfiniBand Adapter
Supported I/O Modules:
- Flex System IB6131 InfiniBand Switch
- Flex System IB6131 InfiniBand Switch (FDR Upgrade)*
*This license allows the switch to support FDR speeds.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter x64 Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise x64 Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard x64 Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web x64 Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server with Xen x64 Edition
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64/EM64T
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64/EM64T
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
Physical Specifications:
The dimensions and weight of the adapter are as follows:
- Width: 100 mm (3.9 inches)
- Depth: 80 mm (3.1 inches)
- Weight: 13 g (0.3 lb)
Shipping dimensions and weight (approximate):
- Height: 58 mm (2.3 in)
- Width: 229 mm (9.0 in)
- Depth: 208 mm (8.2 in)
- Weight: 0.4 kg (0.89 lb)
