Infiniband Host Channel Adapter; Cryptographic Coprocessor - IBM Power Systems E870 Technical Overview And Introduction

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Table 2-27 lists the available asynchronous and USB adapters.
Table 2-27 Available asynchronous and USB adapters
Feature
Code
5785
EN27
EC45
EC46

2.7.8 InfiniBand host channel adapter

The InfiniBand architecture (IBA) is an industry-standard architecture for server I/O and
inter-server communication. It was developed by the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) to
provide the levels of reliability, availability, performance, and scalability necessary for present
and future server systems with levels significantly better than can be achieved by using
bus-oriented I/O structures.
InfiniBand (IB) is an open set of interconnect standards and specifications. The main IB
specification is published by the InfiniBand Trade Association and is available at the following
location:
http://www.infinibandta.org/
InfiniBand is based on a switched fabric architecture of serial point-to-point links, where these
IB links can be connected to either host channel adapters (HCAs), used primarily in servers,
or to target channel adapters (TCAs), used primarily in storage subsystems.
The InfiniBand physical connection consists of multiple byte lanes. Each individual byte lane
is a four-wire, 2.5, 5.0, or 10.0 Gbps bidirectional connection. Combinations of link width and
byte-lane speed allow for overall link speeds from 2.5 Gbps to 120 Gbps. The architecture
defines a layered hardware protocol, and also a software layer to manage initialization and
the communication between devices. Each link can support multiple transport services for
reliability and multiple prioritized virtual communication channels.
Table 2-28 lists the available InfiniBand adapters.
Table 2-28 Available InfiniBand adapters
Feature
Code
5285

2.7.9 Cryptographic Coprocessor

The Cryptographic Coprocessor cards provide both cryptographic coprocessor and
cryptographic accelerator functions in a single card.
The IBM PCIe Cryptographic Coprocessor adapter highlights the following features:
Integrated Dual processors that operate in parallel for higher reliability
Supports IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture or PKCS#11 standard
CCIN Description
57D2 4 Port Async EIA-232 PCIe Adapter
2 Port Async EIA-232 PCIe Adapter
PCIe2 LP 4-Port USB 3.0 Adapter
PCIe2 4-Port USB 3.0 Adapter
CCIN Description
58E2 PCIe2 2-Port 4X IB QDR Adapter 40Gb
Placement
I/O drawer
I/O drawer
CEC
I/O drawer
Placement
I/O drawer
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview
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OS support
AIX, Linux
AIX, IBM i, Linux
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