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Abstract
The QLogic 12200-BS21, 12800-040, and 12800-180 are 36-port, 72-port, and 324-port Quad Data Rate (QDR, 40 GB) InfiniBand switches, respectively, designed for cost-effective linking resources into a cluster or providing an edge switch option for a large fabric. Clients can tailor the modular product to meet present and future needs. The QLogic 12200-BS21, 12800-040, and 12800-180 are a series of products that deliver high-speed networking features and functions.
Introduction
InfiniBand is an industry-standard high-performance interconnect for clusters and enterprise grids. This industry-standard fabric creates clusters that address many of the requirements, such as those found in scientific, technical, and financial applications. InfiniBand solutions are designed for high availability and can also deliver the scalability required by distributed database processing.
The QLogic 12200-BS21 is a 36-port, 40 Gbps InfiniBand switch that cost-effectively links workgroup resources into a cluster. This compact 1U solution is used for building small node count fabrics. Included in the switch are redundant power supplies, power cords, a rack mount kit, and the QLogic InfiniBand Fabric Suite. The QLogic 12800-040 is a 72-port, 40 Gbps InfiniBand switch that links resources using a scalable, low-latency fabric. The 12800-040 supports up to four 18-port QDR leaf modules. Included in the switch are redundant QDR Management Modules, redundant power supplies, redundant fans, power cords, a rack mount kit, and the QLogic InfiniBand Fabric Suite. The QLogic 12800-180 is a 324-port 40 Gbps InfiniBand switch designed to maintain larger clusters, supporting up to eighteen 18-port QDR leaf modules. Included in the 12800-180 are redundant QDR Management Modules, a full complement of Management Modules to provide a 100% nonblocking fabric for all ports, redundant power supplies, redundant fans, power cords, rack mount kit, and QLogic InfiniBand Fabric Suite.
These new QDR high-performance server switches enable you to form high-performance clusters and grids that deliver the performance required for you to realize the full potential of your applications and systems.
Figure 1 shows the QLogic 12200 QDR InfiniBand switch.
Figure 1. QLogic 12200 QDR InfiniBand switch
Did you know?
QLogic 12800 and 12200 InfiniBand switches series are part of the IBM® Power Systems™ Cluster. The IBM Power Systems Cluster is a fully integrated HPC solution. IBM clustering solutions include servers, storage, and industry-leading OEM interconnects that are factory-integrated, fully tested, and delivered to your door, ready to plug into your data center, all with a single point of contact for support.
Part number information
Table 1 shows the part numbers to order these modules and additional options for them.
Table 1. IBM part numbers for ordering
| Description | IBM part number | Feature |
| QLogic 12800-180 324-port QDR InfiniBand Switch | 7874-324 | N/A |
| QLogic 12800-040 72-port QDR InfiniBand Switch | 7874-072 | N/A |
| QLogic 12200 36-port InfiniBand Switch | 7874-036 | N/A |
| QLogic 18-Port 4x QDR Ultra-HP InfiniBand Leaf Module for the 12800-040 and 12800-180 QLogic QDR InfiniBand Switches | 7874-072, 7874-324 | 3314 |
| QDR Fabric Director Leaf Module Blank* | 7874-324 | 3315 |
| QDR Fabric Director Leaf Module Blank* | 7874-072 | 3315 |
| IBM 19-inch rack for the QLogic 12200 36-port InfiniBand Switch (7874-036) | 7014-T00, 7014-T42 (1U) | 0379 |
| IBM 19-inch rack for the QLogic 12800-040 72-port QDR InfiniBand Switch (7874-072) | 7014-T00, 7014-T42 (5U) | 0380 |
| IBM 19-inch rack for the QLogic 12800-180 324-port QDR InfiniBand Switch (7874-324)** | 7014-T42 (14U) | 0381 |
** The IBM 7874-036 and IBM 7874-072 can be mounted in any IBM 19-inch rack. To address the need for larger system cable management of the InfiniBand cables, the IBM 7874-324 is required to be installed in a 7014-T42 rack, with the rack extender feature number. The rack extender is 20-inches deep.
Note: Larger configurations require the use of an external Host Subnet Manager (HSM). This will be running on an IBM System x3550 or IBM System x3650, with InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter and InfiniBand cable. Commercial configurations can use the Embedded Subnet Manager (ESM), which is monitored from the network. More than 144 nodes will require the use of the HSM.
Figure 2 shows the 12800-180 switch module.
Figure 2. QLogic 12800-180 InfiniBand switch
The QLogic 12800-180, 12800-040, and 12200-BS21 QDR InfiniBand switches, based on QLogic TrueScale ASIC technology, deliver the next evolution in switch fabric performance for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
These switches deliver high port density and low power per port:
- The 12800-180 provides 324 QDR ports using 18-port Ultra-High Performance (UHP) leaf modules in a 14U chassis.
- The 12800-040 provides 72 QDR ports using 18-port UHP leaf modules in a 5U chassis.
- The 12200-BS21 provides 36 QDR ports a 1U chassis.
The high-availability 12800 design includes hot swappable InfiniBand spine and leaf modules, fully redundant power and cooling, and redundant management processors supporting chassis management (CLI and GUI), as well as embedded InfiniBand Subnet Managers (SMs). The 12800 also supports advanced QLogic fabric features including adaptive routing, Virtual Fabrics (vFabric), Quality of Service (QoS), and management wizards for automated installation, configuration, and monitoring to maximize operational efficiency.
The QLogic 12800 and 12200 InfiniBand switches include redundant power supplies, power cords, a rack mount kit, and the QLogic InfiniBand Fabric Suite.
Benefits
The QLogic 12800 and 12200 InfiniBand switches offer the following benefits:
- Low latency: The QLogic 12800 and 12200 provide scalable, predictable low latency, even at 90% traffic use. Predictable latency means that HPC applications can be scaled easily without worrying about diminished cluster performance or costly system-tuning efforts.
- Flexible partitioning: The QLogic 12800 and 12200 advanced design are based on an architecture that provides comprehensive virtual fabric partitioning capabilities that enable the InfiniBand fabric to support the evolving requirements of an organization. The TrueScale architecture, together with IFS, allows the fabric to be shared by mission-critical applications while delivering maximum bandwidth utilization.
- Modular design: InfiniBand port, power, cooling, and management modules are common in the series, giving customers the flexibility to deploy and grow HPC environments in a cost-effective fashion.
- Investment protection: The QLogic 12800 and 12200 adheres to the InfiniBand Trade Association Version 1.2 specification, ensuring the ability to interoperate with all other IBTA-compliant devices.
- Highly reliable: This system is designed for high availability with features that include port-to-port and module-to-module failover, non-disruptive firmware upgrades, component-level diagnostics and alarming, and both in-band and out-of-band management.
- Easy to manage: The 12800 and 12200 use QLogic’s advanced IFS software for quicker installation and configuration. IFS has advanced tools to verify fabric configuration, topology, and performance. Faults are automatically isolated to the component level and reported.
- Simple installation and configuration: Using the installation and configuration wizards contained in the IFS package allows users to bring up fabrics in days instead of weeks.
- Power optimized: Maximum performance is delivered with minimal power and cooling requirements as part of QLogic’s Star Power commitment to developing green solutions for the data center.
Features and specifications
The QLogic 12800 InfiniBand switches include the following features and functions:
The QLogic 12200 InfiniBand switch includes the following features and functions:
The QLogic 12800-040 has the following specifications:
The QLogic 12800 InfiniBand switch family supports the following management methods:
QLogic 12200-SB21
The QLogic 12200-SB21 has the following specifications:
- Between 36 and 324 ports of InfiniBand QDR (40 Gbps) performance with support for DDR and SDR
- 40/20/10 Gbps auto-negotiation links
- Supports Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP) optical cable specifications
- TrueScale architecture, with scalable, predictable low latency
- Scales to 25.92 Tbps aggregate bandwidth
- Switching latency: 140 to 420 ns
- Multiple virtual lanes (VLs) per physical port
- Virtual lanes: Eight plus one management
- Maximum MTU size: 4096 bytes
- Maximum multicast table size: 1024 entries
- Supports virtual fabric partitioning
- Fully redundant system design
- Option to use UHD leafs for maximum connectivity and performance (only on QLogic 12800 switches)
- UHP module: 18 QDR ports
- Redundant QDR managed spine modules (only on QLogic 12800-180 switch) -- a full complement of spine modules to provide a 100% nonblocking fabric for all ports
- Integrated chassis management capabilities for installation, configuration, and ongoing monitoring
- Optional InfiniBand Fabric Suite (IFS) management solution that provides expanded fabric views and fabric tools
- Complies with InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) Version 1.2 standard
The QLogic 12200 InfiniBand switch includes the following features and functions:
- Thirty-six ports of InfiniBand QDR (40 Gbps) performance with support for DDR and SDR
- 40/20/10-Gbps auto-negotiation links
- Supports Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP) optical cable specifications
- TrueScale architecture, with scalable, predictable low latency
- 2.88 Tbps aggregate bandwidth
- Switching latency: < 140 ns
- Multiple Virtual Lanes (VLs) per physical port
- Virtual lanes: Eight plus one management
- Maximum MTU size: 4096 bytes
- Maximum multicast table size: 1024 entries
- Supports virtual fabric partitioning
- Redundant power (12200 models 0449-028 and 0449-029)
- External chassis management via optional InfiniBand Fabric Suite (IFS) management solution, which provides an expanded set of fabric views and fabric tools.
- Complies with InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) Version 1.2 standard
QLogic 12800-180 and 12800-040
The QLogic 12800-180 has the following specifications:
- Eighteen to 324 ports
- 25.92 Tbps switching capacity
- Supports up to 18 leaf modules
The QLogic 12800-040 has the following specifications:
- Eighteen to 96 ports
- 5.76 Tbps switching capacity
- Supports up to 4 leaf modules
The QLogic 12800 InfiniBand switch family supports the following management methods:
- Command-line interface
- Optional external server-based InfiniBand-compliant subnet manager
- Optional embedded fabric management
- IBTA-compliant SMA, PMA, and BMA
- Chassis management GUI
- SNMP support
- Access methods
- 10/100 Ethernet Base-T
- Serial port (RS-232 with DB9)
QLogic 12200-SB21
The QLogic 12200-SB21 has the following specifications:
- 36 ports
- 5.76 Tbps switching capacity
- QLogic InfiniBand Fabric Suite
- Optional external server-based InfiniBand compliant subnet manager
- IBTA compliant SMA and PMA
Supported servers, adapters, and cables
The QLogic 12800 and 12200 InfiniBand switches support IBM Power Systems nodes with InfiniBand adapters installed in Power Systems or BladeCenter® servers. The tables below show core solution components from the IBM Cluster systems release guide.
QDR InfiniBand solution with Power Systems servers and QLogic 12800 series switches
Table 2 shows core components to create full-speed QDR (40 Gbps) InfiniBand solution using QLogic 12800 InfiniBand switches and Power Systems servers.
Table 2. QDR InfiniBand solution core components for Power Systems
* A PCIe Gen2 riser is required.
DDR InfiniBand (20 Gbps) solution with BladeCenter servers and QLogic 12800 and QLogic 12200 series switches
Table 3 shows core components to create a full-speed DDR (20 Gbps) InfiniBand solution using QLogic 12800 InfiniBand switches and Power Systems servers.
Table 3. DDR InfiniBand solution core components for BladeCenter
* The 4X InfiniBand Pass-thru high-speed switch module supports DDR speeds but does not support QDR speeds.
QDR InfiniBand solution with Power Systems servers and QLogic 12800 series switches
Table 2 shows core components to create full-speed QDR (40 Gbps) InfiniBand solution using QLogic 12800 InfiniBand switches and Power Systems servers.
Table 2. QDR InfiniBand solution core components for Power Systems
| Description | IBM part number or machine type |
| InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters | |
| PCIE2 LP 2-PORT 4X IB QDR ADAPTER 40 GB | Feature code 5283 |
| PCIE2 2-PORT 4X IB QDR ADAPTER 40 GB | Feature code 5285 |
| Compute nodes | |
| IBM Power 710 | 8231-E1C |
| IBM Power 720 | 8202-E4B*, 8202-E4C |
| IBM Power 730 | 8231-E2C |
| IBM Power 740 | 8205-E6B*, 8205-E6C |
| IBM Power 770 | 9117-MMC |
| IBM Power 780 | 9179-MHC |
| Cables | |
| 10 m Quad Data Rate InfiniBand Optical Cable, QSFP/QSFP | Feature code 3290 |
| 30 m Quad Data Rate InfiniBand Optical Cable, QSFP/QSFP | Feature code 3293 |
| 1 m (3.3-ft) IB/E'Net 40G Copper Cable QSFP/QSFP | Feature code 3287 |
| 3 m (9.8-ft.) IB/E'Net 40G Copper Cable QSFP/QSFP | Feature code 3288 |
| 5 m QDR IB/E'Net Copper Cable QSFP/QSFP | Feature code 3289 |
DDR InfiniBand (20 Gbps) solution with BladeCenter servers and QLogic 12800 and QLogic 12200 series switches
Table 3 shows core components to create a full-speed DDR (20 Gbps) InfiniBand solution using QLogic 12800 InfiniBand switches and Power Systems servers.
Table 3. DDR InfiniBand solution core components for BladeCenter
| Description | IBM part number or machine type | Feature code |
| InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters | ||
| QLogic 2-Port QDR 40 GBps InfiniBand | 7891-74x, 7891-73x | 8272 |
| Chassis and compute nodes | ||
| IBM BladeCenter H chassis | 7779-BCH |  |
| IBM BladeCenter HT chassis | 8750-HC1 | |
| IBM BladeCenter S chassis | 7779-BCS | |
| IBM BladeCenter PS703 server | 7891-73x | |
| IBM BladeCenter PS704 server | 7891-74x | |
| IBM BladeCenter PL7B2 server | 7058-76L | |
| IBM BladeCenter JS22 server | 7998 | |
| IBM BladeCenter JS23 server | 7778 | |
| IBM BladeCenter JS43 server | 7778-23x | |
| Pass-thru modules and cables | ||
| 4X InfiniBand Pass-thru HSSM for BladeCenter* | 43W4419 | |
| 3 m QLogic Optical DDR InfiniBand QSFP-to-CX4 Cable | 59Y1908 | |
| 10 m QLogic Optical DDR InfiniBand QSFP-to-CX4 Cable | 59Y1912 | |
| 30 m QLogic Optical DDR InfiniBand QSFP-to-CX4 Cable | 59Y1916 | |
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