WinIB High performance Interconnect Software

Overview

Use of clustered commodity servers, in lieu of traditional supercomputers and mainframes, offers tremendous price/performance benefits and unparalleled flexibility in deployment and long-term maintenance. To enable distributed computing transparently, HPC applications require the highest bandwidth and lowest possible latency. In enterprise data center (EDC) applications, these requirements are compounded with the need to support a large interoperable ecosystem of networking, virtualization, storage, and other applications and interfaces. The WinIB Collection from Mellanox Technologies is designed, packaged and supported to enable OEMs to meet the needs of HPC and EDC applications.

BENEFITS

• Single software stack that operates across all available InfiniBand devices and configurations such as Mem-Free, DDR/SDR, PCI-X, and PCI Express modes
• Support for HPC applications for scientific research, oil and gas exploration, automotive, benchmarking, etc.
• Support for EDC applications such as cluster data bases, and financial applications
• Support for traditional IP and Sockets based applications, both over TCP/IP, as well utilizing RDMA and kernel bypass modes for higher performance, lower CPU utilization and lower latency
• Support for high performance block storage applications utilizing RDMA benefits
• Support for cluster management tools

OS SUPPORT

• Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 SP1
• Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS)
• Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2

WHQL Qualification and Logo (WinIB 1.3)

The following adapters and devices are currently WHQL-qualified and bear the “Designed for Windows” logo. OEMs that use these devices and adapters in their products and use the WinIB 1.3 stack can approach Microsoft to get the “Designed for Windows” for those products. Test log files can be provided on request.

Devices:

• InfiniHost™ III Ex - MT25208: Dual Port 10Gb/s or 20Gb/s PCI Express x8 Host Channel Adapter
• InfiniHost™ III Lx Single-Port 10 or 20Gb/s 4X InfiniBand HCA with PCI Express x8

Adapters:

• MHEA28-XTC and MHGA28-XTC DDR: Dual Port 10Gb/s or 20Gb/s PCI Express x8 MemFree Channel Adapter
• MHEA28-1TC and MHGA28-1TC DDR: Dual Port 10Gb/s and 20Gb/s PCI Express x8 Channel Adapter
• MHES18-XTC and MHGS18-XTC DDR- Single Port 10Gb/s or 20Gb/s PCI Express x8 MemFree Channel Adapter
• MHES14-XTC Single-Port 10Gb/s InfiniBand HCA Card with PCI Express x4

Mellanox is a Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Partner