The Sun 10-Port 4x DDR InfiniBand (IB) PCI Express (PCIe) Network Express Module (NEM) provides one InfiniBand 4x DDR connection for each CPU blade to external InfiniBand networks. Each 4x DDR port supports a single x8 PCI Express (PCIe) connection, providing full-duplex data transfers of up to 16-Gbps.
The following figure shows the IB NEM back panel.
Additional features include:
Support for hot-plug operations
Integrated serializer-deserializer ((SerDes)
InfiniBand™ Trade Association (IBTA) version 1.1 interoperability
Dual copper connectors (MicroGigaCN)
256-Mbyte of fixed local DDR memory
Link status indicators
For more information, see the Sun 10-Port 4x DDR InfiniBand PCIe Network Express Module User's Guide (Sun Part number: 820-0810) at Sun Documentation.