The Cisco® SFS M7000E Double Data Rate (DDR) InfiniBand Switch, designed exclusively for the Dell M1000E Blade systems, offers an innovative, cost-effective solution for building high-performance clusters.
Figure 1. Cisco SFS M7000E InfiniBand Switch for Dell M1000E Blade System
As the exclusive DDR InfiniBand solution for Dell's next-generation blade platform, the Cisco SFS M7000E Switch offers optimal density, high performance, and power efficiency to clusters of any size. Built on the latest DDR InfiniBand technologies, the Cisco SFS M7000E Switch is engineered to efficiently maximize I/O performance and minimize time to results for the most demanding class of applications.
Product Overview
The Cisco SFS M7000E Switch delivers an ideal combination of price and performance for customers seeking to minimize costs and maximize results with the Dell M1000E Blade platform. The switch provides DDR InfiniBand connectivity to upto 16 server modules and provides 8 DDR InfiniBand uplink ports. Each DDR InfiniBand port can support 20Gbps of fully non-blocking bandwidth to each port. The port to port latency through the switch is 140 ns.
When fully populated, the Dell M1000E can have four Cisco SFS M7000E blade modules to drive 1.28 terabits of nonblocking traffic for I/O-intensive applications. The blade switch is also a hot-pluggable expansion module, allowing on-the-fly capacity expansion without application disruption. The Cisco SFS M7000E is designed to a compelling high performance computing (HPC) solution in the blade market.
Figure 2. Cisco SFS M7000E InfiniBand Switch with 8 DDR external ports
The Cisco SFS M7000E has been certified with the Cisco SFS 7000 Series InfiniBand Server Switches and Cisco SFS 3000/3500 Multi-fabric Server Switches. Cisco provides a complete DDR InfiniBand switching family to complement the Cisco SFS M7000E switch to deliver HPC solutions. For example, by using the Cisco SFS-7024D Switches in the core (288-port, 4x DDR InfiniBand switches) to aggregate multiple blade chassis, a customer can build clusters with tens of thousands of processors using Dell M1000 blade systems.
Because the Cisco SFS M7000E is an unmanaged switch, a subnet manager is required for the operation of the InfiniBand fabric. Cisco recommends running the Cisco High Performance Subnet Manager on a server module in the InfiniBand fabric. The Cisco SFS M7000E is also qualified with other SFS management applications such as the Fabric Analysis and Correlation Toolkit.
Table 1. General Features of the Cisco SFS M7000E Switch
Product Specifications
Tables 2 through 4 give specifications of the Cisco SFS M7000E Switch.
Table 2. Mechanical Specifications of Cisco SFS M7000E Switch
Table 3. Environmental Specifications of Cisco SFS M7000E Switch
Table 4. Reliability Specifications of Cisco SFS M7000E Switch
Ordering Information
Table 5 provides ordering information for the Cisco SFS M7000E Switch.
Table 5. Ordering Information
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