Mellanox, MT27808A0-FDCF-CE, ConnectX-5 Pro Dual-Port Adapter Silicon with Virtual Protocol Interconnect, FDR/100GbE, PCIe 3.0 16GT/s
Features:
- Virtual Protocol Interconnect
- 1us MPI ping latency
- Up to 100Gb/s InfiniBand or 100 Gigabit Ethernet per port
- PCI Express 3.0 (up to 16GT/s)
- CPU offload of transport operations
- Application offload
- GPU communication acceleration
- Precision Clock Synchronization
- HW Offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic
- End-to-end QoS and congestion control
- Hardware-based I/O virtualization
- Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)
Benefits:
- World-class cluster, network, and storage performance
- Cutting edge performance in virtualized overlay networks (VXLAN and NVGRE)
- Guaranteed bandwidth and low-latency services
- I/O consolidation
- Virtualization acceleration
- Power-efficient
- Scales to tens-of-thousands of nodes
ConnectX-3 Pro Adapter Silicons with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI), supporting InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity with hardware offload engines to Overlay Networks ("Tunneling"), provide the highest performing and most flexible interconnect solution for PCI Express Gen3 servers used in public and private clouds, Enterprise Data Centers, and High-Performance Computing (HPC). Public and private cloud clustered databases, parallel processing, transactional services, and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation. ConnectX-3 Pro with VPI also simplifies system development by serving multiple fabrics with one hardware design.
Virtual Protocol Interconnect
VPI-enabled adapters enable any standard networking, clustering, storage, or management protocol to seamlessly operate over any converged network leveraging a consolidated software stack. With auto-sense capability, each ConnectX-3 Pro VPI port can identify and operate on InfiniBand, Ethernet, or Data Center Bridging (DCB) fabrics. FlexBoot™ provides additional flexibility by enabling servers to boot from remote InfiniBand or LAN storage targets. ConnectX-3 Pro with VPI and FlexBoot simplifies I/O system design and makes it easier for IT managers to deploy infrastructure that meets the challenges of a dynamic data center.
InfiniBand
ConnectX-3 Pro delivers low latency, high bandwidth, and computing efficiency for performance-driven servers and storage clustering applications. Efficient computing is achieved by offloading from the CPU protocol processing and data movement overhead such as Remote Direct Memory (RDMA) Access and Send/Receive semantics, allowing more processor power for the application. CORE-Direct™ brings the next level of performance improvement by offloading application overhead such as data broadcasting and gathering, as well as global synchronization communication routines. GPU communication acceleration provides additional efficiencies by eliminating unnecessary internal data copies to significantly reduce application run time.ConnectX-3 Pro advanced acceleration technology enables higher cluster efficiency and large scalability to tens of thousands of nodes.
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
ConnectX-3 Pro utilizing IBTA RoCE technology delivers similar low-latency and high-performance over Ethernet networks. Leveraging Data Center Bridging capabilities, RoCE provides efficient low latency RDMAservices over Layer 2 Ethernet. With link-level interoperability in existing Ethernet infrastructure, Network Administrators can leverage existing data center fabric management solutions.
Sockets Acceleration
Applications utilizing TCP/UDP/IP transport can achieve industry-leading throughput over InfiniBand or 10/40/56GbE. The hardware-based stateless offload engines in ConnectX-3 Pro reduce the CPU overhead of IP packet transport.
