About Sun 10-Port 4x DDR IB PCIe NEM

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.

Feature Overview

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.