Product Brief
Intel
Edge Switches 100 Series
48 and 24 port edge switches (100 Gbps per port)
The Right Fabric for HPC
® Omni-Path Fabric
Intel® Omni-Path Fabric Edge Switches,
an element of the Intel® Scalable System
Framework, are part of an end-to-end
product family for HPC fabrics that
delivers high performance with
breakthrough value. Intel
562731-04
Architecture (Intel® OPA) builds on
proven technologies from Intel® True
Scale Architecture, the Cray Aries*
interconnect, and open source software
to provide an evolutionary on-ramp to
revolutionary new fabric capabilities.
Higher Performance at Lower Cost
Intel® Omni-Path Edge Switches deliver
100 Gbps port bandwidth with latency
that stays low even at extreme scale.
Second generation Intel fabric switch
silicon, with market leading 48 port radix,
these switches can lower fabric
acquisition costs by as much as 50
percent, while simultaneously reducing
space and power requirements.
these savings, you can potentially
achieve higher total cluster performance
within the same hardware budget to
expand and accelerate your research.
Flexible Fabrics at Every Scale
Intel® Omni-Path Fabric Edge Switches
support HPC clusters of all sizes, from
entry-level systems to supercomputers
with tens of thousands of server nodes.
You can use these switches in
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Key Benefits
Highly-integrated design reduces
space, power, and cost
• 48 ports, 1U chassis
• 24 ports, 1U chassis
Optimized for high message rates
and low end-to-end latency
Simple generational upgrades, with:
• Binary compatible applications
• FastFabric tools for easy
installation
• All open source software
Key Features
Up to 1.2 terabytes of aggregate
bandwidth
Out of band fabric management
(optional)
Redundant power (optional)
Redundant cooling
Reversible air flow
Next-generation fabric innovations
• Packet Integrity Protection
(PIP)
• Traffic Flow Optimization
(TFO)
• Dynamic Lane Scaling (DLS)
• New 8K and 10K MTUs for
improved storage efficiency
Intel® Omni-Path Edge Switches 100 Series 2
combination with Intel® Omni-Path
Director Class Switches to build lowlatency, multi-tier fabrics with an
exceptional set of features for highspeed networking.
High Availability
Intel® Omni-Path Fabric Edge Switches
provide integrated support for high
availability with advanced features such
as power, component-level diagnostics
and alarming, and out-of-band
management. Innovative features take
fabric resilience and availability to new
heights without sacrificing performance.
Packet Integrity Protection (PIP), for
example, provides high packet reliability
with latency-free error checking and linklevel recovery. Dynamic Lane Scaling
(DLS) maintains 75 percent of link
bandwidth if a physical lane fails, so HPC
workloads can complete gracefully to
keep project efforts on track.
SWITCH SPECIFICATIONS
Based on Intel® Omni-Path Switch
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Silicon 100 Series 48 Port ASIC
100 Gbps per port bidirectional
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Virtual lanes: Configurable from one to
•
eight VLs plus one management VL
Configurable MTU size of 2 KB, 4 KB,
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8 KB, or 10KB
Maximum multicast table size: 8192
•
entries
Maximum unicast table size: 49151
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entries
Supports QSFP28 Quad Small Form
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Factor Pluggable cabling
Passive copper or active fiber cables
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Management Features
Management Card (Optional)
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Built-in Fabric Manager
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Subnet Management Agent (SMA)
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Performance Management Agent
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(PMA)
Enables Command Line Interface and
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Chassis Management GUI through
10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet
Enables Serial Console through USB
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Serial Port
Supports Embedded Subnet Manager
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(ESM) and Performance Manager (PM)
Enables Network Time Protocol (NTP),
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SNMP/MIBs, and LDAP
FastFabric Toolset
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Fabric Management GUI
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LED status
Twenty-four (24) or forty-eight (48)
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link status indicators, one per QSFP28
port (Green)
Two (2) Ethernet indicators (Off = 10;
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Green = 100; Orange = 1G)
Two (2) Chassis indicators (Green –
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Status; Amber - Attention)
Two (2) Power Supply, one per supply
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(Green)
One (1) Q7 Management Installed,
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(Green - Installed)
One (1) External Management Capable,
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(Green – One or more ports can be
directly connected to a Fabric
Manager)
Airflow direction (Green – front-to-
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back airflow)