- Sun Installation and User's Guide Dual Port 4x IB Host Channel Adapter PCI-X

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Product Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the Sun Dual Port 4x IB Host Channel Adapter
PCI-X card and includes the following sections:
■ “Product Features” on page 1
■ “Hardware Description” on page 1
■ “I/O Interfaces” on page 3
■ “LED Displays” on page 3
■ “Hardware, Software, and Cable Requirements” on page 5
Product Features
Sun Dual Port 4x IB Host Channel Adapter PCI-X card features include:
■ Dual 10 Gb/sec (4x) InfiniBand ports
■ Integrated serializer/deserializer (SerDes)
■ PCI-X Revision 2.2-compatible
■ 64-bit or 32-bit 133 MHz PCI-X
■ InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) version 1.1 interoperability
■ Dual copper connectors (MicroGigaCN)
Hardware Description
The Sun Dual Port 4x IB Host Channel Adapter PCI-X card is an InfiniBand (IB) host
channel adapter (HCA) card and is referred to as the IB-HCA in this manual. This
adapter is a PCI-X Revision 2.2, 64-bit, 133MHz compatible card with dual 4x
MicroGigaCN InfiniBand-compliant connectors for copper cables.
FIGURE 1-1 shows
the IB-HCA card.