7–10 Dec 2015
DESY
Europe/Berlin timezone

Next step in PCI-ExpressFabric Switching

9 Dec 2015, 17:00
15m
CFEL (DESY)

CFEL

DESY

Building 99, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg

Speaker

Mr Heiko Körte (N.A.T. GmbH)

Description

How can MTCA.4 systems benefit from the new features of PCI-ExpressFabric technology announced by Avago? The Avago PEX9700 series switch chips with ExpressFabric technology offer an industry-suite of new features that dramatically improve performance while reducing power consumption and cost by 50% for the most demanding hyper-converged, NVMe, and rack scale systems. Key Features: * Enable Multi-Node cluster over PCIe Fabric * Host-to-Host DMA * Share I/O Among Multiple Hosts * Dedicated x1 PCIe port for switch management * Downstream Port Containment (DCP / eDPC) * SSC Isolation and SRIS Clocking * No Changes to Existing Standard Software & Drivers

Summary

This presentation discuss the new features of the Avago PCI-ExpressFabric Switches and how this can be implemented in MicroTCA.4 systems.

Primary author

Mr Heiko Körte (N.A.T. GmbH)

Presentation materials