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Solution Overview |
The Cisco® SFSM7000E InfiniBand Switch provides a modular InfiniBand double-data-rate (DDR) blade solution for clusters requiring high performance in a dense form factor. As the exclusive InfiniBand solution for the Dell next-generation blade platform, the Cisco SFSM7000E switch offers optimal density, high performance, and power efficiency to clusters of any size. |
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Customer Value Proposition and Primary Messages |
Business decision makers: • Reduced power requirements: Reduce power consumption to minimize energy cost and promote "green" data centers.
• Maximized return on investment (ROI): Maximize ROI with a cost-efficient InfiniBand blade switch.
• Single vendor for networking: Access Cisco as the single vendor for all high-performance computing (HPC), data networking, and storage networking needs (InfiniBand, Ethernet, and storage switching).
• Service and support: Obtain Dell and Cisco support for complete networking solutions.
Technical decision makers: • Time to results: Minimize run time for the most demanding HPC applications.
• Low latency: Achieve cut-through latency of 140 nanoseconds (ns) port to port.
• High throughput: Deliver 20-Gbps throughput per port to each blade server, with 320-Gbps uplink bisectional bandwidth.
• Scalable fabric topologies: Build multiple, independent InfiniBand fabrics with the same server nodes by installing up to four Cisco switches in a Dell blade chassis.
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Main Solution Components |
• Cisco SFSM7000E InfiniBand Switch for Dell M1000e Blade Chassis:
 This switch offers optimal density, high performance, and power efficiency to clusters of any size. The switch interconnects all 16 blade server modules in a chassis through InfiniBand DDR ports.• Cisco SFS 7000 Series InfiniBand Server Switches: These switches are completely nonblocking and offer low latency and high performance for HPC cluster applications. Products range from the Cisco SFS 7000D InfiniBand Server Switch to the 288-port modular Cisco SFS 7024D InfiniBand Server Switch.
• Cisco SFS High Performance InfiniBand Subnet Manager 1.2: This product is the industry's first subnet manager to commercially support scalable, multivendor InfiniBand networks. It is a standalone software package that supports heterogeneous, multivendor InfiniBand networks.
• Cisco Fabric Analysis and Correlation Toolkit: This toolkit improves cluster availability and productivity using advanced diagnostic and analysis tools.
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Cisco SFSM7000E InfiniBand Switch and Dell M1000e Blade Chassis |
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Cisco SFSM7000E InfiniBand Switch for Dell M1000e Blade Chassis |
Dell M1000e Blade Chassis |
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Contacts |
• Dell global accounts manager: Sean Copp (secopp@cisco.com)
• Cisco product manager: Roy Kim (roy.kim@cisco.com)
• For more information, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/hpc or send e-mail to dellhpcc@cisco.com.
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