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Quadrics QsNetII

Quadrics QsNetII

Overview Specification

QsNetII Spec

Bus interfaces PCI-X 1.0/PCIe 1.0a
Peak bus bandwidth 1064Mbytes/s
QsNet link width 10 bits
QsNet line rate 1.333Gbaud
Sustainable transfer rate 900Mbytes/s
On chip cache 32kbytes D + 16Kbytes
Local Memory 64Mbytes ECC DDR SDRAM
Peak Memory Bandwidth 2.67Gbyte/s
IO processor 200MHz 64 bit
Physical Addressing 52 bits
Virtual Address 64 bit VA, 4K/16K contexts
MMU 2 x 64 entry TLB + hash table



Network Adapters: QM509 (PCIe), QM500 (PCI-X)

QM509/QM500
Processor Quadrics Elan 4 network processor.
Bus Interface QM509: x4 PCIe Rev. 1.0a
QM500: 64 bit & 128 bit, 133MHz PCI Bus. PCI-X 1.0
Link Physical Layer Full duplex 10 bit, 1.3 Gbaud Quadrics QsNetII Link. 900MBytes/s peak each direction, after protocol.
Link Logical Layer Remote virtual write - Quadrics proprietary.
I/O processor 200 MHz integrated I/O processor.
DMA processor Integrated DMA engine. Automatic packetisation and scheduling.
Input processor Dedicated input packet processing engine.
Cache 32KByte on chip d-cache, 16KByte on chip i-cache.
On board Memory 64MBytes onboard DDR-SDRAM with ECC.
MMU Dual 128 entry integrate TLB + table walk engine supporting full 64 bit virtual addressing.
Supported OS Tru64 UNIX ™ , Linux ™ .
Communications libraries MPI 1.2 + MPI 2.0 remote read and write. Shmem*, kernel messaging & IP.
Physical Low profile, half length PCI card (167.65mm x 68.90mm). Standard height (111.15mm) faceplate also available
Power QM509 (<12W), QM500 (<10W), typical



E-Series Standalone switches

QS8A QS32 QS5A-LA
Number of links 8 ports 32 ports 128 ports
Link Physical Layer Full duplex 10 bit, 1.3 Gbaud Quadrics QsNet II Link. Full duplex 10 bit, 1.3 Gbaud Quadrics QsNetII Link. Full duplex 10 bit, 1.3 Gbaud Quadrics QsNetII Link.
Switch architecture Single stage 2 stage fully instantiated fat tree. 3 stage fully instantiated fat tree.
Bisectional Bandwidth 7.2 GBytes 28.8 GByte/s 57.6 GByte/s
Physical 2U 19 inch rack mountable (90mm x 43mm x 260mm) 4U 19 inch rack mountable (180mm x 430mm x 400mm). 17U 19 inch rack mountable (750mm x 440mm x 510mm).
Power 40W 120/240 Vac 180W max 120/240 Vac 50/60Hz 700W 120/240 Vac50/60Hz