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p9eip12p_pcie_slot_details.dita) or PCIe adapter placement rules for the 9006-22P (http://
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER9/p9eip/p9eip22p_pcie_slot_details.dita)
Voltage
3.3 V, 12 V.
Form factor
Short, with full-height tailstock
Attributes provided
Low latency RDMA over converged Ethernet
Connectivity to up-to 4 independent hosts
Hardware-based I/O virtualization
Transceivers and cables
Mellanox LinkX 10 Gb/s, 25 Gb/s, 40 Gb/s, 50 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Direct Attach Copper cables (DACs),
Copper Splitter cables, Active Optical Cables (AOCs) and Transceivers. For information regarding
Mellanox LinkX cables and Transceivers, see LinkX
www.mellanox.com/products/interconnect/infiniband-copper-cables.php).
Operating system or partition requirements
If you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software that is required to support the new
feature and that you determine whether any prerequisites must be met for this feature and attaching
devices. To check for operating system and partition requirements, see one of the following links:
• The latest version of enabling libraries and utilities can be downloaded from Fix Central (http://
www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/).
• IBM Prerequisite website (www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/iprt/home).
• IBM SSIC (System Storage Interoperation Center) (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/
ssic/interoperability.wss).
• The latest version of the device driver or the IBM Power RAID adapter utilities (iprutils) can be
downloaded from the IBM Service and Productivity Tools website (http://www14.software.ibm.com/
webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/home.html).
• For more information, see the Linux Alert website (www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/
lopdiags/info/LinuxAlerts.html).
Important: For a list of known Linux operating system issues that can affect this adapter, see the IBM
Power LC readme(https://ibm.biz/BdrgTZ).
Mellanox MCX414A-BCAT ConnectX-3 Pro EN Dual-port 40/56 GbE PCIe3.0 x8 LP Adapter (FC EKAW)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for the feature code (FC) EKAW
adapter.
Overview
The Mellanox MCX414A-BCAT ConnectX-3 Pro EN Dual-port 40/56 GbE PCIe3.0 x8 LP Adapter is a PCI
Express (PCIe) generation 3 (Gen3) x16 adapter. The adapter can be used in either a x8 or x16 PCIe slot
in the system. The adapter provides a combination of 1, 10, 25, 40, and 50 GbE bandwidth, sub-
microsecond latency and a 75 million packets per second message rate. It includes native hardware
support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet, Ethernet stateless offload engines, Overlay Networks, and
®
GPUDirect Technology.
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InfiniBand Direct Attach Copper Cables (http://
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