[MCX555A-ECAT] Mellanox ConnectX-5 VPI adapter card, EDR IB (100Gb/s) and 100GbE, single-port QSFP28, PCIe3.0 x16, tall bracket

NVIDIA MCX555A-ECAT ConnectX-5 VPI Adapter Card EDR InfiniBand and 100GbE Single-Port QSFP28 PCIe 3.0 x16 Tall Bracket ROHS R6

100Gb/s InfiniBand & Ethernet (VPI) Adapter Card
ConnectX-4 network adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI), supporting FDR IB and 40/56GbE connectivity, provide the highest performance and most flexible solution for high-performance, 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, Web2.0 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.

Features
Tag matching and rendezvous offloads
Adaptive routing on reliable transport
Burst buffer offloads for background checkpointing
NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) offloads
Back-end switch elimination by host chaining
Embedded PCIe switch
Enhanced vSwitch/vRouter offloads
Flexible pipeline
RoCE for overlay networks
PCIe Gen 4.0 support
RoHS compliant
ODCC compatible

Benefits
Up to 100Gb/s connectivity per port
Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilization and high message rate
Innovative rack design for storage and Machine Learning based on Host Chaining technology
Smart interconnect for x86, Power, Arm, and GPU-based compute and storage platforms
Advanced storage capabilities including NVMe over Fabric offloads
Intelligent network adapter supporting flexible pipeline programmability
Cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks including Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
Enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities
Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity