IBM Power Systems Offers Mellanox Sourced Switches

IBM Power Systems offers Mellanox sourced switches and features for integrated big data and storage solution offerings

IBM Corp. offers the new EDR 324-port IB Director Switch Sourced from Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., with a high-performing fabric solution in a 16U form factor by delivering up to 64Tb/s of full bidirectional bandwidth with as low as sub 0.5μs port latency.

The integrated IB routing function enables design and deployment of larger-scale IB fabrics. Its low latency enables fast communications within and across the data center. IB routing also enables fabric isolation between different cluster segments (compute/network and storage).

Networking TOR Ethernet Switch SX1410

The Networking TOR Ethernet Switch SX1410 packs 48 SFP+ and 12 QSFP interfaces in a dense 1U form factor. It is available for use with the IBM Elastic Storage Server and IBM Data Engine for Analytics. It is interoperable with components supporting the Ethernet industry standards.

The switch becomes an integral part of an optimized, end-to-end networking solution when combined with other Mellanox Ethernet products, including the ConnectX family of 10GbE NICs, acceleration, and management software and cables. These solutions deliver performance, scalability, reliability, and power usage for data center efficiency and application performance across a range of industry applications in financial services, Web 2.0, database, cloud, and HPC environments.

Networking TOR Ethernet Switch SX1410 (8831-S48) performance:

High density
Non blocking TOR supporting 48 x 10GbE and 12 x 40GbE ports
Up to sixty-four 10GbE ports (using 40GbE ports as 10GbE ports)
Low latency
220ns for 40GbE
270ns for 10GbE
Low power
Control plane resiliency
Dual core x86 CPU
16GB SSD
4GB DIMM
VM user applications
IBM Data Engine for Hadoop and Spark

Two new feature bundles are now available for IBM Data Engine for Hadoop and Spark.

They provide a special price for standard quantities of processor, memory, and disk.

Solution Edition for Hadoop Bundle (#EHLH) includes one 2.92GHz 10C processor, 128GB memory, and 72TB HDD (12 x 6TB HDDs) when selected for each Hadoop data node server. This is a configuration suitable for typical Hadoop based workloads.

Solution Edition for Spark Bundle (#EHLK) includes one 2.92GHz 10C processor, 256GB memory, 60TB HDD (10 x 6TB HDD), and two 960GB SSDs when selected for each Spark worked node server. This is a configuration suitable for typical Spark based workloads.

The New EN0V adapter is also available in this solution: PCIe2 LP 4-port (10GB + 1GbE) Copper SFP+RJ45 Adapter.

Elastic Storage Server

IBM is adding new capability and capacity to the Elastic Storage Server:

1.6TB SSD options to the GS1, GS2, and GS4 models
1.8TB SAS drives in our GS2, GS4, and GS6 models
100Gb/s Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) IB adapter
HDFS transparency support
FIPS Compliant end-to-end encryption support
Data compression support with new capability available in Spectrum Scale 4.2

Mellanox SX1410 Ethernet Switch is available
as option in the Elastic System Server:

48 ports of 10GbE
12 ports of 40GbE

Planned availability date

April 29, 2016, for features 4651, 4652, 4653, 4654, 4655, 4656, 4657, 4658, 4659, 4660, 4661, 4662, 4663, 4664, 4665, 4666, EGSA, EGSB, ER2R, and ER36
May 27, 2016, for EDR IB Director Switch (8828-ED1), Networking TOR Ethernet Switch SX1410 (8831-S48) (available for use with IBM Elastic Storage Server and IBM Data Engine for Analytics), and features EGTB, EGTC, EGTD, EGTE, EGTF, EGTG, EHJQ, EHLH, EHLK, ELFU, and EN0V