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Insertion of NIC (without riser card) into a PCI-X slot

Installed NIC (without riser card)

However, since space is very restricted in a 1U rack-mounted host, if the rack-
mounted host is a 1U host, the Myrinet/PCI-X NIC must be installed with a riser
card. The riser card is inserted on the PCI connector side of the card, and the riser
card is then inserted into a PCI slot (as shown in the following photograph). If you

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Summary of Contents for Myrinet/PCI-X Network Interface Cards

Page 1: ...rface Cards Hardware Software Installation Principles of Operation Myricom Inc Date 11 March 2005 The most recent version of this document can be downloaded from http www myri com scs doc guide_to_pci...

Page 2: ...hese EMC certifications and other engineering data these products carry the CE mark A copy of the current Declaration of Conformity can be found linked from the product specifications on the web at ww...

Page 3: ...has 2MB of local memory A M3F PCIXF 2 NIC has one Myrinet Fiber port has the Myricom Lanai 2XP processor operating at 333MHz and has 2MB of local memory Not all combinations are produced The NICs tha...

Page 4: ...IC with standard PCI faceplate These PCIX series NICs operate in hosts with 75 133MHz PCI X slots or 66MHz 3 3V PCI slots The PCIXD NICs are also available as host card adaptors HCA for the IBM BladeC...

Page 5: ...standard PCI faceplates and if you have 2 you will need to use low profile PCI faceplates Standard or low profile faceplates must be specified at the time of order The NICs should be handled gently p...

Page 6: ...recommend that the Myrinet PCI X NIC not share the PCI bus with another PCI device Case 1 Tower unit host If you have a tower unit host the PCI X slots will look something like the following PCI slot...

Page 7: ...eplate is installed in a PCI X slot If your host has more than one PCI X slot we recommend that the Myrinet PCI X NIC is inserted into the PCI X slot closest to the PCI chipset For best performance th...

Page 8: ...ecommend the PCI X slot closest to the PCI chipset for the installation of the Myrinet PCI X NIC For best performance the Myrinet PCI X NIC should be inserted into a PCI X slot that runs at maximum sp...

Page 9: ...stricted in a 1U rack mounted host if the rack mounted host is a 1U host the Myrinet PCI X NIC must be installed with a riser card The riser card is inserted on the PCI connector side of the card and...

Page 10: ...the riser card slot closest to the PCI X slot on the mother board Inasmuch as some PCI connectors are more close fitting than others you may need to push quite hard to get the card to seat securely I...

Page 11: ...o insert a Myrinet PCI X NIC into a PCI slot running at 64 bit 66MHz However if this is done the 64 bit NIC will run at reduced speed 66MHz Step 3 Secure the NIC in place with a locking screw if appli...

Page 12: ...e is similar to that above namely you see the Network controller MYRICOM Inc entry the Myrinet PCI X NIC has been correctly detected The card ID for the Myrinet PCI X NIC is 8043 the rev 04 denotes a...

Page 13: ...log box as shown below will appear when the host detects a new PCI card Once a Myrinet PCI X NIC has been installed and the host powered on the appearance of this dialog box will signal that Windows h...

Page 14: ...output of prtconf pci14c1 8043 instance 0 This output contains the card ID 8043 for the Myrinet PCI X NIC and the card vendor ID for Myricom 14C1 as listed in the PCI Vendor registry If the output yo...

Page 15: ...er ent4 Available 1H 08 Myrinet GM Ethernet PCI Adapter Before the GM module is loaded on the host the Myrinet NICs will be listed as Defined As soon as the GM software is loaded on the host the entry...

Page 16: ...excerpt of the sample output is as follows o USBKeyLargo class USBKeyLargo o pci14c1 8043 12 class IOPCIDevice o gm class gm o usb 18 class IOPCIDevice If the output you receive contains the 8043 devi...

Page 17: ...value and the card vendor ID in the lower half of the value The card ID for the Myrinet PCI X NIC is 8043 and the vendor ID for Myricom as listed in the PCI Vendor registry is 14c1 In this example th...

Page 18: ...cal memory 225MHz for the PCIXD and 333MHz for the PCIXE and PCIXF The Fiber NICs contain conversion circuitry between the SAN port of the Lanai chip and the external port For the Fiber M3F NIC pictur...

Page 19: ...ed below PCI bus 64 bit 133 66MHz These NICs support both PCI X and PCI protocols and can be used in any 3 3V PCI slot The PCIXD NIC is capable of peak PCI data rates at the limits of the PCI X or PCI...

Page 20: ...ght 6 4cm exclusive of the PCI faceplate length 16 4cm total thickness 2 2cm weight 82g including the standard PCI faceplate The NIC can be supplied with either a standard PCI faceplate or a low profi...

Page 21: ...Refer to http www myri com myrinet performance for full details on the application level performance difference between the PCIXD PCIXE and PCIXF NICs 2005 Myricom Inc DRAFT 21...

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