IBM Power Systems Offers Mellanox Networking Switches

IBM Power Systems offers Mellanox sourced networking switches, adapter, and cables for integrated big data and storage solution offerings

The 40-port HDR TOR front air flow switch (8828-H40) and the Unmanaged 40-port HDR TOR switch (8828-H42), made by Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.http://www.mellanox.com/ for IBM Power Systems servershttps://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power/enterprise, offer several features and benefits.

Performance:

40 x HDR 200Gb/s ports in a 1U switch
80 x HDR100 100Gb/s ports (using splitter cables)
16Tb/s aggregate switch throughput
Sub-90ns switch latency

Optimized design:

1+1 redundant and hot-swappable power
N+1 redundant and hot-swappable fans
80 Gold+ and Energy Star-certified power supplies

IBM offers the 40-port HDR TOR front air flow switch, the Unmanaged 40-port HDR TOR switch, and the HDR100 adapter made by Mellanox. The switches and adapters offer high performance fabric solutions in a 1U form factor, delivering up to 16Tb/s of nonblocking bandwidth to HPC and enterprise data centers with sub-90ns-rated port-to-port latency.

Built with Mellanox’s Quantum IB switch device, the switches deliver up to forty 200Gb/s full bidirectional bandwidth per port. These standalone switches are for top-of-rack leaf connectivity or for building small-size to medium-size clusters.

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These network switches are designed to enable in-network computing through the co-design Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) technology.

The co-design architecture enables the usage of all active data center devices to accelerate the communications frameworks using embedded hardware, resulting in application performance improvement.

Its efficient computing, with features such as routing, adaptive routing, congestion control, and enhanced VL mapping to enable modern topologies (SlimFly, Dragonfly+, 6DT), ensures the maximum fabric bandwidth by eliminating congestion hotspots.

Key requirements: IBM Power Systems server

Planned availability date: May 22, 2020