User Guide

Supported CFFh expansion cards
Table 4 lists the CFFh expansion cards that are supported or planned to be supported in the IBM BladeCenter
GPU Expansion Blades. The use of these CFFh expansion cards requires that the expansion blade be
installed in a BladeCenter H or BladeCenter HT chassis.
Table 4. Supported CFFh expansion cards
Description Part
number
Feature
code
GPU
Expansion
Blade
GPU
Expansion
Blade II
2/4 Port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh) 44W4479 5476 Yes Yes
2-Port 40 Gb InfiniBand Expansion Card (CFFh) 46M6001 0056 Yes Yes
Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 2-port Ethernet Expansion Card
(CFFh)
46M6168 0099 Yes Yes
Broadcom 10 Gb Gen 2 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card
(CFFh)
46M6164 0098 Yes Yes
Brocade 2-port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter 81Y1650 5437 No Yes
Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter (CFFh) 49Y4235 5755 Yes Yes
Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced (CFFh) 49Y4275 2435 Yes Yes
Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II (CFFh) 90Y3550 A1XG Yes Yes
Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter Advanced II (CFFh) 90Y3566 A1XH Yes Yes
InfiniBand 4X DDR Expansion Card (CFFh) 43W4423 2991 No No
Mellanox 2-port 10Gb E'net Expansion Card (CFFh) 90Y3570 A1NW Yes Yes
QLogic 2-port 10 Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) 42C1830 3592 Yes Yes
QLogic Ethernet and 8 Gb Fibre Channel Expansion Card
(CFFh)
44X1940 5485 Yes Yes
Consult IBM ServerProven to see the latest list of CFFh expansion cards that are supported in the Expansion
Blades:
http://ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/
Operating system support
The following operating systems have been tested for compatibility with the IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion
Blade.
Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition (64-bit)
Windows HPC Server 2008 (64-bit)
Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Edition 11 for x86_64 (64-bit)
Related publications
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