Cornelis Omni-Path Express Edge Switches

Cornelis Omni-Path Express Accelerated Host Fabric Adapters are designed to provide a perfect semantic match between the requirements of real-world HPC applications and the scale-out fabric, maximizing performance at scale.

Cornelis Omni-Path Express adapters come in PCI low profile and Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 form factors and deliver scalable bandwidth in increments of 100 Gbps, 250 million MPI messages per second, and sub-microsecond MPI latency.

Other advanced performance features include dispersive routing, congestion control, a unique sub-link layer architecture that enables Packet Integrity Protection (zero latency protection against bit transmission errors), and Virtual Fabrics support.

Cornelis Networks provides the industry’s leading edge switch.

Omni-Path Express Edge Switches costeffectively deliver high bandwidth and use advanced technologies to meet the key challenges to application performance, maximizing cluster scalability and message rate while minimizing
Cornelis Omni-Path Express scale-out interconnect

Cornelis Omni-Path Express scale-out interconnect Unprecedented demands on the scale-out interconnect are being driven by advances in artificial intelligence, high performance data analytics, and traditional modeling and simulation environments, coupled with extremely capable processing and storage infrastructures.

Cornelis Omni-Path Express is the next generation of high performance fabrics, a proven hardware foundation combined with the OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) software framework, that delivers the industry’s lowest latency, highest message rate, and best collectives performance, all at the industry’s lowest CPU utilization

Accelerated application performance at scale.

Cornelis Omni-Path Express Edge Switches provide forty-eight 100 Gbps ports, delivering full bidirectional bandwidth per port.

Cornelis Omni-Path Express Edge Switches are very versatile, as the only switch in small clusters, the first tier switch in larger clusters, and the network core in intermediate clusters.

The Omni-Path Express Edge Switches ensure optimal application performance by delivering key features for efficiency, including dynamic adaptive routing and congestion control.

These features are complemented by a unique sub-link layer architecture that enables Packet Integrity Protection (zero latency protection against bit transmission errors) and Traffic Flow Optimization (pausing the transmission of a lower priority packet in favor of a higher priority packet).

These features, together with advanced Virtual Fabrics support, provide the unique interconnect capabilities to deliver industryleading application performance and manageability at scale.

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“Enormous compute power along with performant fabric interconnects enable our research findings to push forth political decisions and actions through pandemic (COVID-19) virus spread predictions and refining workflows for new drug design or drug proposals currently under clinical biomedical trials.”
Dr. Thomas Steinke
Head of Supercomputing Department
Product Highlights
Benefits
  • Accelerated application performance at scale
  • Industry leading best price-performance
  • Advanced sub-link layer capability eliminating link protection and tail latency penalties
Key Benefits

Performance

  • 48 x 100 Gbps ports in 1U
  • 9.6 Tbps aggregate switch throughput
  • Sub-110 ns post-protection switch latency

Highly Optimized Design

  • Redundant power and fans
  • Reversible air flow
  • Optional internal management

Advanced features

  • Dynamic Adaptive Routing
  • Packet Integrity Protection
  • Traffic Flow Optimization
  • Dynamic Lane Scaling
  • Congestion Control
  • Virtual Fabrics
Switch Features
  • Omni-Path Switch Silicon 100 Series 48-Port ASIC
  • 100 Gbps bidirectional bandwidth per port
  • Virtual lanes: Configurable from one to eight VLs plus one management VL
  • Configurable MTU size of 2 KB, 4 KB, 8 KB, or 10 KB
  • Maximum multicast table size: 8192 entries
  • Maximum unicast table size: 49151 entries
  • QSFP28 Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable cabling
  • Supports passive copper and active optical cables
Management Features
  • Subnet Management Agent (SMA)
  • Performance Management Agent (PMA)
  • Serial Console through USB Serial Port
  • Optional internal management capability
  • NTP, SNMP, and LDAP support
  • Chassis Management via CLI and GUI
  • FastFabric Toolset and FM GUI support
Specifications
100 Gbps ports 48
Total System Bandwidth (bidirectional) 9.6 Tbps (1.2 TB/s)
Chassis Dimensions (w x h x d) Fixed Edge: 19” rack mountable, 1U chassis (441 mm x 43.7 mm x 438 mm)
Hot Swap: 19” rack mountable, 1U chassis (441 mm x 43.7 mm x 671 mm)
Weight Fixed Edge: 6.1 kg (unmanaged), 6.4 kg (managed)
Hot Swap: 7.7 kg (unmanaged), 8.0 kg (managed)
Configuration Options Forward (P/S-to-I/O) or Reverse (I/O-to-P/S)
Air Flow Management Module
Power (Typ/Max) 189/238 W (Using direct attach copper cables)
285/330 W (Using 2W QSFP active optical cables)
Input Range 100-240 VAC 50-60 HZ
Product Range
Item Name Item number Item description
100SWE48QF2 948588 Cornelis Omni-Path Edge Switch 100 Series 48 Port Managed Forward 2 PSU
100SWE48UF2 948678 Cornelis Omni-Path Edge Switch 100 Series 48 Port Forward 2 PSU
100SWE48QFH 955016 Cornelis Omni-Path Edge Switch 100 Series 48 Port Managed Forward Hot Swap
100SWE48UFH 955213 Cornelis Omni-Path Edge Switch 100 Series 48 Port Forward Hot Swap
100SWEADKIT 950880 Cornelis Omni-Path Edge Switch Air Duct Kit 100 Series (optional accessory)
100SWEHSFTF 955106 Cornelis Omni-Path Edge Switch Hot Swap Fan Tray Forward 100 Series
100SWEHSPSF 955107 Cornelis Omni-Path Edge Switch Hot Swap Power Supply Forward 100 Series
100SWEIKIT1 945820 Cornelis Omni-Path Edge Switch Installation Kit 100 Series (replacement kit)
Further Information
Safety
  • US/Canada
    cTUVus NRTL 62368-1
  • Europe
    TUV SUD EN 62368-1
  • International
    CB Scheme: IEC 60950/62368-1
Operating Conditions
  • Temperature
    Operating: 0° to 40° C
    (derated 1C/175m above 900m)
    Storage: -40° to 70° C
  • Humidity
    Operating: 5% to 85% non-condensing
    Storage: 5% to 95% non-condensing
  • Altitude
    Operating: 0 – 3,200m
    Storage: 0 – 10,000m
Emissions/Immunity
  • US/Canada
    FCC Part 15, Subpart B, Class A, ICES3(A)/NMB-3(A)
  • Europe
    EN55032 Class A, EN55035, EN55024
  • Japan
    VCCI, Class A
  • AS/NZ
    AS/NZ CISPR 32, Class A
  • Korea
    RRA/KC (KN32, KN35), Class A
  • Taiwan
    BSMI (CNS 13438 Class A
    CNS 14336, CNS 15663)
Environmental
  • RoHS
    RoHS II Directive 2011/65/EU
  • REACH
    (EC) No 1907/2006