Dual-QSFP+ 40G Network Card Mellanox ConnectX-3 PCI-e 3.0 X8 PCI Express 40 Gigabit Ethernet Server NIC (ST7288-40GB)

Description
PCIe x8 Mellanox Connectx-3 Dual-Port 40G QSFP adapter with PCI Express 3.0 deliver high-bandwidth and industry-leading Ethernet connectivity for performance-driven server and storage applications in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. Clustered databases, web infrastructure, and high frequency trading are just a few applications that will achieve significant throughput and latency improvements resulting in faster access, real-time response and more users per server. ConnectX-3 EN improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associated transport load on the CPU especially in virtualized server environments.

Specification
PCI-Express host interface specification v 3.0 x8 and Complete with PCIe 2.0 and 1.1
Two 40 Gigabit QSFP+ Ethernet ports
Compliant with QSFP+ MSA Spec Rev 1.0
Two QSFP ports supporting FDR-14 InfiniBand or 40Gb Ethernet
Support for InfiniBand FDR speeds of up to 56Gbps (auto-negotiation FDR-10, DDR and SDR)
Low-profile form factor adapter with 2u bracket
Virtual protocol interconnect (VPI)
InfiniBand Architecture specification v 1.2. 1 compliant
IEEE Std. 802.3 compliant
Compliant with copper cables and optical cables with the use of QSFP connectors.
Support for SFP+ cables available through QSA (Quad to Serial)
CORE-Direct application off-load
GPUDirect application off-load
RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE)
End-to-End QoS and congestion control
TCP/UDP/IP stateless off-load
Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)
SR-IOV support; 16 virtual functions supported by KVM and Hyper-V (OS dependant ) up to a maximum 127 virtual functions supports by the adapter
Enables low latency RDMA over 40GbEthernet (supported with both non-virtualized and SR-IOV enable virtualized servers)\u2014latency as low as 1us
Traffic steering across multiple cores
Microsoft VMQ