I/O Slots (I/O Mezzanine Card Options For M1000E); Overview; Options; Pcie Card Support - Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Manual

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10.3

I/O Slots (I/O Mezzanine Card Options for M1000e)

10.3.1

Overview

The M610X contains four PCIe Gen2 mezzanine slots. Installation of mezzanine cards requires an
M1000e I/O Module (IOM) of the same fabric technology to be installed in the corresponding fabric
slot of the mezzanine to support data flow through that fabric/slot
10.3.2

Options

Available options for slots include:
Available options for slots include:
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Broadcom Dual-Port 5709
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Broadcom Quad-Port 5709
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Intel ET Quad-Port 82576
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Broadcom Dual-Port 57711
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Intel Ethernet X520 10GbE x/k
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QLogic CNA QME8142
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Emulex CNA OCM10102FM
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QLogic QME2572 (FC8)
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Emulex LPe1205 (FC8)
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Mellanox ConnectX™-2 DDR IB (SFF)
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Mellanox ConnectX™-2 QDR IB (SFF)
10.3.3

PCIe Card Support

The following cards are supported:
• Dell cards
H800 controller
–
6GB SAS controller
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• Fusion-io cards (drop in the box)
160GB SLC
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640GB MLC
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NVIDIA cards (cards installed, drivers available on NVIDIA site)
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M1060 (takes up both slots)
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M2050-204 (takes up both slots)
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10.3.4

NVIDIA Cards

GPGPU stands for General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units. Graphics Processing
Units (GPUs) are high-performance many-core processors that can be used to accelerate a wide range
of applications
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The NVIDIA Tesla™ M10 and 20-series are designed for high-performance computing. General
Purpose acceleration provides performance boosts for many applications in energy exploration,
science, and financial services and is commonly found in a high-performance computing (HPC)
environment.
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