Installation manual

Alacritech Accelerator Users Guide 1-1
1 Introduction
1.1 About this Guide
This guide describes how to install Release 9 software and operate
Alacritech Accelerators on a Windows Server 2003-based system or
a Windows XP Professional x64 Edition-based system that uses the
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack. 1000
Series (1000x1, SES1001) Accelerators are not supported with this
software release, but will continue to be supported under earlier
software releases with a major number of 7. 100 Series (100x4,
100x2 and 100x1) Accelerators are not supported with this software
release, but will continue to be supported under earlier releases with
a major number of 6.
1.1.1 Naming conventions
The general term Accelerator for this release applies to all of the
following products:
TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) NICs (TNICs):
 SEN2002XT Dual-Port Accelerator
 SEN2002XF Dual-Port Accelerator (1000Base-SX)
 SEN2001XT Single-Port Accelerator
 SEN2001XF Single-Port Accelerator (1000Base-SX)
 SEN2104ET Quad-Port Accelerator
 SEN2104EF Quad-Port Accelerator (1000Base-SX)
 SEN2102ET Dual-Port Accelerator
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 SEN2102EF Dual-Port Accelerator (1000Base-SX)
iSCSI Controllers:
 SES2002XT Dual-Port iSCSI Accelerator
 SES2002XF Dual-Port iSCSI Accelerator (1000Base-SX)
 SES2001XT Single-Port iSCSI Accelerator
 SES2001XF Single-Port iSCSI Accelerator (1000Base-SX)
 SES2104ET Quad-Port iSCSI Accelerator
 SES2104EF Quad-Port iSCSI Accelerator (1000Base-SX)
 SES2102ET Dual-Port iSCSI Accelerator
 SES2102EF Dual-Port iSCSI Accelerator (1000Base-SX)
Product names ending with a T specify unshielded twisted pair
(UTP) copper connections, and product names ending with an F
indicate fiber-based connections. XT and XF products are PCI-X
based, and ET and EF products are PCI Express (PCIe) based.
1.2 Description
Alacritech Accelerators are single-port or multi-port network
interface cards (NICs) that employ Alacritech’s SLIC Technology
architecture, which uses an innovative application-specific
integrated circuit (ASIC) for protocol processing. Accelerators
operate with Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition operating systems using the Scalable Networking Pack.
The SLIC Technology architecture increases server performance
and efficiency in two specific ways:
 TCP/IP Protocol processing is offloaded onto the
Accelerator, freeing the CPU for application processing and
maximizing throughput.