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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