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7104-HCA-LPX2P-DDR
True high performance SDR 4x InfiniBand (IB) to PCI Express Host Channel Adapter (HCA)


InfiniBand (IB) 4X DDR to PCI Express Host Channel Adapter (HCA)
An integral member of the QLogic family of interconnect offerings, the 7104-HCA-xxx series Double Data Rate (DDR) HCA is a single or dual port 4X IB HCA utilizing a x8 PCIe interface to enable high server bandwidth. It offers an aggregate to 40 Gbps of full-duplex bandwidth.

The QLogic HCA creates an expressway of balanced bandwidth between the server and the IB fabric, allowing information transfer at 20 Gbps, up to 20 times the bandwidth of current server interfaces. A comprehensive host environment of high-performance ULPs contained within the QLogic software family enables the HCA to provide unprecedented performance to core business applications that are supported by DataBase Management Systems (DBMS), clustering, HPBC, and high availability clustering.
 
QLogic HCA in the Enterprise
Combined with its ULPs, the HCA is the channel by which today’s complex and costly enterprise environments quickly evolve to feed ever-growing processing requirements. Clustering, Ethernet, and Fibre Channel are all concurrently supported via a single 20-Gb pipe. The net effect is a significantly reduced level of infrastructure complexity and improved business responsiveness, with a lower total cost of ownership.

The HCA, used in conjunction with QLogic’s family of InfiniBand clustering switches and virtual I/O systems, is part of a complete end-to-end InfiniBand solution ready to enable today’s servers to handle tomorrow’s processing requirements.
  
Guaranteed Interoperability
InfiniBand ecosystem partner certifications, combined with agency and regulatory testing, ensures all products meet industry compliance hardware and software specifications. All HCAs are tested extensively with third-party hardware, along with multiple software applications, to ensure best-in-class InfiniBand interoperability and compatibility. You can be confident purchasing QLogic HCAs to meet your InfiniBand networking needs.
  
Investment Protection
For over 15 years, QLogic has been a technological leader with products that address the current needs of customers, yet provide strong investment protection to support emerging technologies and standards. QLogic stands alone in the industry with its product portfolio depth and experience in successfully delivering technological solutions that address the needs of today and tomorrow.


Key Design Features
• Single or dual 4X (20 Gbps) IB ports
• PCIe x8 support
• Fully PCIe compliant
• Low profile design
• Comprehensive suite of high performance Upper Level Protocols (ULPs)
          - uDAPL
          - Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP)
          - Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS)
          - VirtualNIC
          - VirtualHBA
          - IPoIB
          - MPI
          - Windows® SDP
• Supports up to 130K queue pairs and 130K completion queues

Strategic Benefits
• Seamless InfiniBand enabling of PCI Express PCI-e servers.
• No operating system or applications changes required
• Improved server CPU utilization with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) protocols
• Fast 20-Gbps technology today for High Performance Business Computing (HPBC)
• Server connectivity to InfiniBand based intelligent virtual I/O and clustering fabrics


Host Bus Interface Specifications
PCI v2.2 compliant
• PCI Express compliant
• Low profile design
• x8 PCIe support
• PCI Express Base Specification 1.2 compatible

InfiniBand Interfaces and Specifications
Transport types
• Unreliable Datagram (UD)
• Reliable Connection (RC)

Transport Services
• RDMA read request
• RDMA write request and atomic operations
• Send/Receive

Kernel Bypass

InfiniBand specifications
• 8 virtual fabrics plus management lane
• Configurable up to 130K queue pairs and 130K completion queues1
• Configurable up to 256k memory regions/520K Windows regions1
• Auto configurable MTU 256 to 2048 bytes (2048 default)
• Support for 64 configurable P_Keys per port
• Up to 8 RDMA read requests as target per queue pair
• Maximum message size 2 GB
• 1 constant and 31 configurable Global IDs (GUIDs)
• Support acknowledge (ACK) coalescing
• Memory, work queue, and completion queue accesses protection
• InfiniBand v1.1 and v1.2 compliat

Connectivity
Dual 4X (10 Gb and 20 Gb) speeds - copper HSSD

Tools and Utilities
Management support
• InfiniBand Fabric Suite
• BMA, PMA, SMA, CM
• Fabric and device discovery
• Generates SMA traps

Operating environments
• Linux™
• Windows 200x


Host Driver/Upper Level Protocol (ULP) Support

uDAPL
ULP RDMA server-to-server access utilizing User Direct Access
Program Library (uDAPL) APIs

SDP
Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) support for highperformance sockets-based data transfers

RDS
Sockets off-load driver provides reliable, in order, no duplicate delivery
semantics for Oracle® Real Application Clusters (RAC)

VirtualNIC
Ethernet ULP and advanced functionality (port sharing, load balancing,
Ethernet IB switching)

VirtualHBA
Fibre Channel ULP and advanced functionality (port sharing,
LUN management, SCSI Remote DMA Protocol (SRP)

IPoIB
ULP to allow Internet Protocol (IP) using InfiniBand (IB) as a link layer

MPI
ULP for HPC clusters utilizing Message Passing Interface (MPI) function calls

WSD
Windows Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) support for high-performance
zero-copy data tran

Physical Specifications
PCI-X low profile form factor 6.60 in x 2.536 in (167.64 mm x 64.41 mm)

Environment and Equipment Specifications
Operating temperature
• 10°C to 45°C at sea level
• 0–3 km (10,000 feet)
• -30°C to 60°C (non-operating)

Humidity (non-condensing)
• Operating: 20% to 80%
• Storage: 5% to 90%

Typical power consumption
10 Watts

Maximum power consumption
14 Watts

RoHS compliant
RoHS 5

Agency Approvals—Product Safety
US
UL60590; Listed accessory

Europe
EN60950; Listed accessory

Agency Approvals—EMI and EMC
US
FCC Part 15, Class A

Europe
EN55022 level A; EN55024; EN61000-3-2,-3
 
1Memory options are 128MB or 256 MB for the PCIe HBA.
The architecture supports up to 16 GB. Larger memory sizes
will be released as application requirements grow.


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