SFN5812H/SFN5814H
DUAL/QUAD-PORT ENTERPRISE ETHERNET MEZZANINE ADAPTER FOR IBM BLADECENTER H
INDUSTRY-LEADING LATENCY AT HIGHEST MESSAGE RATES
TWO/FOUR 10GBE PORTS 40 GBPS OF FULL, BIDIRECTIONAL LINE RATE
SUPPORTS SOLARFLARE OPENONLOAD®,
LOWEST CPU UTILIZATION DUE TO OFFLOAD
LOW POWER CONSUMPTION, TYPICALLY 3.9W(DUAL)/7.9W(QUAD)
SUPPORTS BACKPLANE CONNECTORS
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
The Solarflare® SFN5812H dual-port and SFN5814H quad-port 10G Ethernet mezzanine server adapters (CFFh form factor) deliver the industry's best application performance, lowest power consumption and most scalable virtualization – enabling unmatched performance and scalability for IBM BladeCenter.
The SNF5812H/SFN5814H server adapters enhance the benefits of IBM BladeCenter by reducing complexity and increasing performance. The server adapter family optimizes application networking performance in CFFh form factor, supporting IBM's high-speed daughter card slot with HS22 blade servers in BladeCenter chassis. This product family provides unmatched performance scaling for high-density blade server deployments, supporting four 10GbE ports and two PCIe buses, while utilizing a single driver across all Solarflare server adapter products. The SFN5812H/5814H server adapters support data networking with concurrent support of iSCSI and NAS traffic.
Application Performance Leadership
The SFN5812H and SFN5814H are designed to optimize application performance and maximize the use of network resources, while minimizing CPU utilization, delivering the industry's lowest-latency and up to 80 Gbps bi-directional line-rate performance. Featuring a rich set of stateless offloads, both provide efficient acceleration of the most demanding network protocol tasks.
The SNF5812H and SFN5814H both support Solarflare's OpenOnload® application accelerator, a high-performace user-level network middleware for Linux. OpenOnload bypasses kernel networking overheads, further reducing latency and is binary compatible with standard APIs and applications.
SPECIFICATION
| PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS | |
|---|---|
| Product Number | SFN5812H - Dual-Port 10GBASE-KX4 SFN5814H - Quad-Port 10GBASE-KX4 |
| Standards & Compliance: |
PCIe 2.0 5.0 GT/s |
| Power (typical): | SFN5812H: 3.9W SFN5814H: 7.9W |
| Operating Range: | 0º to 55º C 0 LFM, Min |
| Physical Dimensions: | L: 13.7 cm (5.4 in) W: 15.9cm (6.25in) IBM CFFh form factor |
| Advanced Features | Server Compatibility HS22 family of servers - HS22, HS22V Chassis Compatibility IBM BladeCenter E, H, S I/O Virtualization 1024 guest OS protected vNICs per port; SR-IOV PCI Express PCIe 2.0 @ 5.0GT/s for full, 40 Gbps bi-directional bandwidth SFC9020 10G Ethernet Controller Supports high-performance 10GbE 10GBASE-KX4 Two or four 10GBASE-KX4 ports for backplane transmission Low Latency Cut-through architecture/intelligent interrupt coalescing Receive Side Scaling (RSS) Distributes IPv4, IPv6 loads across all CPU cores; MIS-X minimizes interrupt overhead Hardware Offloads LSO, LRO; GSO; IPv4/IPv6; TCP, UDP checksums; Accelerated Receive Flow Steering (RFS) Adapter Teaming / Link Aggregation LACP for redundant links & increased bandwidth Enhanced Tuning Adaptive interrupt moderation IP Flow Filtering Hardware directs packets based on IP, TCP, UDP headers Advanced Packet Filtering 256 multicast filters; 4096 VLANs/port; adaptive TCP/UDP/IP/MAC/VLAN/RSS filtering Jumbo Frames 9000 byte MTU for performance Intel QuickDataTM Uses host DMA engines to accelerate I/O Remote Boot PXE, iSCSI; unattended installation Management SNMP, ACPI v3.0 Virtualization Support ESX 3.5, ESX / ESXi 4.0, 4.1, Hyper-V, Linux KVM, XenServer 5.6, 6.0; NetQueue; VMQ; SR-IOV OS Support Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2; Linux RHEL5/6; SLES10/11; Solaris 10 (x86) |
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- 10GbE Dramatically Improves HPC Performance vs. 1GbE
Solarflare analysis reveals that applications can benefit from a 10x increase in network bandwidth, improved latency and power efficiency by upgrading to 10G Ethernet. This improvement can be realized in High Performance Computing, and other performance-critical applications. - Delivering HPC Applications with Juniper Networks and Solarflare Communications
Working together, Juniper Networks and Solarflare Communications offer high-performance, low latency products that deliver a complete end-to-end Ethernet solution for the most demanding HPC environments. - Introduction to OpenOnload—Building Application Transparency and Protocol Conformance into Application Acceleration Middleware
Solarflare’s OpenOnload application acceleration middleware is an accelerated network stack. It is an implementation of TCP and UDP over IP which is dynamically linked into an application’s address space and granted direct access to accelerated network hardware. - Solarflare Streamlines Climate Storage
DKRZ recently upgraded its Infiniband-based visualization cluster with a 10G Ethernet solution using Solarflare server adapters to improve performance while leveraging a common base of Ethernet-based tools, expertise, and management. - Solarflare's OpenOnload Presentation to the French Network Operators Group (FRnOG)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Reports 10GbE Improves Cluster Performance by 36% over InfiniBand
PPPL is one of many shared high-performance computing (HPC) clusters in the fusion energy community that operates both Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and InfiniBand (IB) clusters. Attracted by the competitive price per port and ease of use of 10GbE, PPPL decided to measure application performance on 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) interconnect, PPPL found that the 18 node cluster utilizing 10GbE significantly outperformed the cluster configured with DDR IB, reducing GYRO code compute time by over 36%. - Solarflare OpenOnload vs. RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
OpenOnload is a dynamically linked library which transparently accelerates all POSIX socket API calls, while ensuring application compatibility, easy deployment, and simplified management. - Superior NFS Performance using Solarflare Server Adapters
This technical note summarizes performance benchmarking of Linux NFS over 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) using Solarflare Server Adapters. This note outlines the benefits of 10GbE over Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) for NFS thereby providing a case for upgrading GbE infrastructure to 10 GbE, and to demonstrate that Solarflare Server Adapters offer a cost-effective, high- performance solution whose performance exceeds that of other 10GbE adapters on the market. - 10G Ethernet: Now Ready for Low-Latency HPC Applications
Solarflare extends the benefits of its low-latency, high-bandwidth 10GbE server adapters to High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications - Steve Pope and David Riddoch Deliver Google Tech Talk "The OpenOnload User-level Network Stack
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