InfiniScale III - 24-port InfiniBand Switch Silicon

Overview

InfiniScale III is Mellanox’s third generation InfiniBand switch silicon device used to create reliable, scalable, and easy to manage interconnect fabrics for compute, communication, storage, and embedded applications. The device supports twenty-four 4X ports or eight 12X InfiniBand ports or a combination of both port types.

  • Twenty-four 10 or 20Gb/s InfiniBand 4X ports or eight 30 or 60Gb/s InfiniBand 12X ports (or any combination)
  • 480Gb/s (SDR version) or 960Gb/s (DDR version) of total switching bandwidth
  • Scalable to thousands of Ports
  • 96 integrated 2.5Gb/s (SDR version) or 5Gb/s (DDR version) SerDes interfaces (physical layer)
  • Auto-negotiation of port link speed
  • Ultra low latency cut-through switching (less than 200 nanoseconds)
  • Supports Multi-Protocol Applications for Clustering, Communication, and Storage
  • Integrated Subnet Management Agent (SMA)
  • Integrated General Service Agent (GSA) including both Performance Management Agent (PMA) and Baseboard Management Agent (BMA)
  • Inbound and Outbound Partition (P_KEY) Checking
  • Programmable port mirroring
  • IBTA v1.2.1 compatible
  • Eight virtual lanes supported plus management lane
  • 4K Byte Maximum Transmit Unit (MTU)
  • 48K Entry Unicast Linear Forwarding Table (LFT)
  • Multicast support for up to 1K entries
  • Hardware Credit Based Link Level Flow Control
  • Hardware CRC Checking and Generation
  • Bad Packet Filtering
  • Per port Service Level (SL) to VL mapping
  • Integrated Link Packet Buffer
  • PowerQUICC 8/16-bit CPU Interface
  • MBI (I2C Compatible Management Bus Interface)
  • Flash interface
  • Boundary Scan (JTAG) interface
  • In-band InfiniBand IBML management support
  • Industry-standard technology
  • Unified computing, storage and management
  • High-bandwidth, low-latency
  • Performance roadmap to 120Gb/s
  • Highly-efficient clustering
  • Ultimate reliability and scalability
  • Multi-platform support
  • Congestion management and QoS
  • Virtualized I/O fabric
  • World-Class price/performance