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Standards
IEEE 802.3-2005: 10GbE, link aggregation, link pause, management
IEEE 802.3ae 10Gb Ethernet over bre
IEEE 802.3ak CX4
IEEE 802.1p Priority Encoding
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, support for 4096 VLANs
IPv4 (all connections), IPv6 (unaccelerated connections)
IETF RFCs: 793, 1323, 2581, 3782
Host Interface
PCI Express v1.1 (x8)
Management
ACPI 2.0c and PCI Power Management 1.2 compliant
PXE boot support
APIs & Middleware
Sockets and standard NIC
OpenFabrics* iWARP Verbs
uDAPL
Intel MPI, Platform Computing-MPI, Open-MPI,
MVAPICH2, Microsoft MPI
Voltaire Messaging Accelerator (VMA)
NYSE *, Datafabric *
Red Hat* AMQP
Operating Systems
Microsoft* Windows* HPC Server 2008 (via Network Direct)
Linux* Novell* and Red Hat* (via OFED*)
Physical & Environmental
Operating temperature:
0 to 60
o
C
Dimensions
Length
Width
Full-height end bracket:
Low-pro le end bracket:
6.6 in.
2.5 in.
4.725 in.
3.12 in.
No fan or heat sink required
Power (typical)
NE020 SFP+ (SR optical module) 11.0 W
NE020 SFP+ (pluggable/no module) 10.0 W
NE020 CX4 (and Powered CX4) 8.0 W
Certifications
RoHS compliant
PCI Express 1.1 compliant
FCC Class A
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