[MCX456A-ECAT] Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI 100GbE Dual-port InfiniBand & Ethernet Adapter Card

Genuine Mellanox MCX456A-ECAT ConnectX-4 VPI 100GbE Dual-port InfiniBand & Ethernet Adapter Card

ConnectX-4 adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI), supporting EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand and 100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity, provide the highest performance and most flexible solution for highperformance, Web 2.0, Cloud, data analytics, database, and storage platforms.

With the exponential growth of data being shared and stored by applications and social networks, the need for high-speed and high performance compute and storage data centers is skyrocketing.

ConnectX-4 provides exceptional high performance for the most demanding data centers, public and private clouds, Web 2.0 and Big Data applications, as well as High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Storage systems, enabling today’s corporations to meet the demands of the data explosion.

ConnectX-4 provides an unmatched combination of 100Gb/s bandwidth in a single port, the lowest available latency, and specific hardware offloads, addressing both today’s and the next generation’s compute and storage data center demands.

Features

EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand or 100Gb/s Ethernet per port
1/10/25/40/50/56/100 Gb/s speeds
150M messages/second
Single and dual-port options available
T10-DIF Signature Handover
Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI)
CPU offloading of transport operations
Application offloading
Mellanox PeerDirect communication acceleration
Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic
End-to-end QoS and congestion control
Hardware-based I/O virtualization
Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)
RoHS compliant
ODCC compatible
Benefits

Highest performing silicon for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency and high message rate
World-class cluster, network, and storage performance
Smart interconnect for x86, Power, Arm, and GPU-based compute and storage platforms
Cutting-edge performance in virtualized overlay networks (NVGRE)
Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity
Virtualization acceleration
Power efficiency
Scalability to tens-of-thousands of nodes