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High-performance computing (HPC) solutions require high bandwidth, low latency components with CPU offloads to get the highest server efficiency and application productivity. The Mellanox ConnectX-3 and ConnectX-3 Pro network adapters for System x® servers deliver the I/O performance that meets these requirements.

Mellanox's ConnectX-3 and ConnectX-3 Pro ASIC delivers low latency, high bandwidth, and computing efficiency for performance-driven server applications. Efficient computing is achieved by offloading from the CPU routine activities, which makes more processor power available for the application. Network protocol processing and data movement impacts, such as InfiniBand RDMA and Send/Receive semantics, are completed in the adapter without CPU intervention. RDMA support extends to virtual servers when SR-IOV is enabled. Mellanox's ConnectX-3 advanced acceleration technology enables higher cluster efficiency and scalability of up to tens of thousands of nodes.

 

• Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• Low-profile form factor adapter with 2U bracket (3U bracket available for CTO orders)
• PCI Express 3.0 x8 host-interface (PCIe 2.0 and 1.1 compatible)
• SR-IOV support; 16 virtual functions supported by KVM and Hyper-V (OS dependant) up to a maximum of 127 virtual functions supported by the adapter
• Enables Low Latency RDMA over Ethernet (supported with both non-virtualized and SR-IOV enabled virtualized servers) -- latency as low as 1 µs
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload in hardware
• Traffic steering across multiple cores
• Intelligent interrupt coalescence
• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
• Software compatible with standard TCP/UDP/IP stacks
• Microsoft VMQ / VMware NetQueue support
• Legacy and UEFI PXE network boot support
• Supports iSCSI as a software iSCSI initiator in NIC mode with NIC driver
• The Mellanox ConnectX-3 40GbE / FDR IB VPI Adapter has the following features:
• Two QSFP ports supporting FDR-14 InfiniBand or 40 Gb Ethernet
• Support for InfiniBand FDR speeds of up to 56 Gbps (auto-negotiation FDR-10, DDR and SDR)