• NVIDIA MCX556A-ECAT ConnectX-5 VPI Adapter Card EDR InfiniBand and 100GbE Dual-Port QSFP28 PCIe 3.0 x16 Tall Bracket ROHS R6100Gb/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 todays 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