Introduction; Grid Director 4036E Overview; Grid Director 4036E Features; Figure 1: Grid Director 4036E Front View - Mellanox Technologies Grid Director 4036E Installation Manual

Grid Director 4036E Installation Manual
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Introduction

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Grid Director 4036E Overview

The Mellanox Grid Director 4036E is a high performance, low latency and fully non-blocking
InfiniBand switch, which includes a built-in low latency Ethernet gateway for bridging traffic
to and from Ethernet-based networks or storage. With thirty-four 40 Gbps InfiniBand ports
(delivering 2.72 Tbps), less than 100 nanoseconds of port-to-port latency, and two 1/10Gb
Ethernet ports bridging traffic in less than two microseconds, I/O bottlenecks are removed
making applications operate at maximum efficiency.
The Grid Director 4036E is a self-contained full solution including an InfiniBand switch, an
embedded subnet manager, and a built-in, hardware-based (cut-thru) low latency Ethernet
gateway in a compact 1U device.
The following figure shows the front view of a Grid Director 4036E Unit.

Figure 1: Grid Director 4036E Front View

The following figure shows the rear view of a Grid Director 4036E Unit.

Figure 2: Grid Director 4036E Rear View

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Grid Director 4036E Features

The main features of the 4036E gateway include:
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19" rack mountable chassis, 1U height, configurable with redundant power supplies and
fan units
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