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High Performance Interconnects

Overview

Interconnect is one of the key enabling technologies in HPC clustering and other datacenter scale-out solutions. HP provides a broad choice of interconnect products based on the latest technology to meet customers’ requirements in deploying their HPC clusters and other datacenter scale-out solutions.

InfiniBand-based interconnect

InfiniBand provides ultra high bandwidth and low latency, and is ideal for cluster computing, low latency messaging systems, scalable clustered database and data warehouse applications

HP supports 40Gbps (4X QDR) InfiniBand products that include Host Channel Adapters (HCA), switches, software, and cables for HP ProLiant servers, HP Integrity servers, and the HP BladeSystem c-Class. InfiniBand interconnect is part of the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio and can be selected as an option for the HP Cluster Platform, HP Cluster Platform Express, and HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System.

HP supports InfiniBand switches from Voltaire, Mellanox, and QLogic.

The Voltaire switch products available through HP include 36-port, and 324-port QDR switches, 24-port, 96-port, and 288-port DDR switches.
»  Learn more about Voltaire InfiniBand switch products Non-HP site

The Mellanox switch product available through HP includes 324-port QDR switch.
»  Learn more about Mellanox InfiniBand switch product Non-HP site

The QLogic switch products available through HP include 36-port, 324-port, and 648-port QDR switches, and a QDR switch blade for the HP BladeSystem c-Class.

»  Learn more about QLogic switch products Non-HP site

HP part numbers can be found in the Quickspecs.
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»  Learn more about using InfiniBand for a scalable computer infrastructure (white paper)
»  Learn more about the InfiniBand support for the HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades

Ethernet-based interconnect

With the growing trend of scale-out computing, virtualization and cloud computing, the data center network is currently undergoing a change from a hierarchy of silo network switches to a large flat layer 2 (VLL2) fabric. Voltaire Vantage™ 8500 is the latest addition to the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio that provides customers the flexibility and choice to build a large scale 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric that is optimized for performance, efficiency and scalability they need to get the utmost value out of their scale-out and virtualized environments. Voltaire Vantage™ 8500 is high port count layer 2 switch with up to 288 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single switch chassis. It is based on CEE standards and supports a converged, high-density, low latency, low power, lossless and virtualized data center fabric. Multiple switches can be clustered to form large, linearly scaling Layer 2 fabrics. The solution also encompasses fabric management software that controls all the physical and virtual switches and I/O devices in the fabric for central fabric monitoring and management. HP supports Voltaire Vantage™ 8500 switch through its resell agreement with Voltaire.

»  Learn more about Voltaire Vantage™ 8500 available through HP: QuickSpecs

Related HP products and software

HP supports InfiniBand switch blades for the HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures.
»  Learn more

HP also supports InfiniBand copper and fiber optic cables for building QDR and DDR InfiniBand fabrics.
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HP-MPI is a high performance and production quality implementation of the Message-Passing Interface (MPI) standard for HP servers, blades and workstations.  HP-MPI is supported on InfiniBand products from HP.
»  Learn more about HP-MPI

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High performance interconnect for scale-out solutions


  • InfiniBand products for the HP ProLiant servers, Integrity servers  and the HP BladeSystem c-Class are ideal for high performance computing customers who want to deploy scale-out solutions that require high bandwidth and low latency interconnect.

  • InfiniBand products are also ideal for customers who want to deploy general purpose scale-out solutions that can benefit from a high bandwidth and low latency interconnect
     
  • Large port count 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch is ideal for customers who want to deploy scale-out and virtualized environments that can benefit from a high performance and low latency flat 10G Ethernet fabric,

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