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10.3 I/O Slots (I/O Mezzanine Card Options for M1000e)
10.3.1 Overview
The M610X contains four PCIe Gen2 mezzanine slots. Installation of mezzanine cards requires an
M1000e I/O Module (IOM) of the same fabric technology to be installed in the corresponding fabric
slot of the mezzanine to support data flow through that fabric/slot
10.3.2 Options
Available options for slots include:
Available options for slots include:

Broadcom
® Dual-Port 5709

Broadcom
® Quad-Port 5709

Intel
® ET Quad-Port 82576

Broadcom
® Dual-Port 57711

Intel
® Ethernet X520 10GbE x/k

QLogic
® CNA QME8142

Emulex
® CNA OCM10102FM

QLogic
® QME2572 (FC8)

Emulex
® LPe1205 (FC8)

Mellanox
® ConnectX™-2 DDR IB (SFF)

Mellanox
® ConnectX™-2 QDR IB (SFF)
10.3.3 PCIe Card Support
The following cards are supported:
• Dell cards
– H800 controller
– 6GB SAS controller
• Fusion-io ® cards (drop in the box)
– 160GB SLC
– 640GB MLC
• NVIDIA ® cards (cards installed, drivers available on NVIDIA site)
– M1060 (takes up both slots)
– M2050-204 (takes up both slots)
10.3.4 NVIDIA Cards
GPGPU stands for General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units. Graphics Processing
Units (GPUs) are high-performance many-core processors that can be used to accelerate a wide range
of applications
The NVIDIA
® Tesla™ M10 and 20-series are designed for high-performance computing. General
Purpose acceleration provides performance boosts for many applications in energy exploration,
science, and financial services and is commonly found in a high-performance computing (HPC)
environment.