HPE P25960-B21 DUAL PORT 100GbE CONNECTX-6 QSFP56 / MELLANOX MCX623106AS-CDAT

NVIDIA® Mellanox® ConnectX®-6 Dx SmartNIC is the industrys most secure and advanced cloud network interface card to accelerate mission-critical data-center applications, such as security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage. The SmartNIC provides up to two ports of 100 Gb/s and one port of 200 Gb/s Ethernet connectivity and delivering the highest return on investment (ROI) of any smart network interface card.

MADE BY NVIDIA/MELLANOX FOR HPE CONNECTX-6 DX QSFP56 DUAL PORT
HPE ETHERNET SMARTNIC - VERY HIGH SPEC, SEE DETAILS BELOW.
PCIe Gen 3.0 / 4.0 x16, Best in class PTP for TSN applications and much more.
GPU-to-GPU to comms, GPUDirect®

SmartNIC Portfolio > 1/10/25/40/50/100/200 Gb/s Ethernet, PAM4/NRZ > PCIe low-profile form factor > QSFP56 connectors > PCIe Gen 3.0 / 4.0 x16 host interface Key Features > Up to 200 Gb/s bandwidth > Message rate of up to 215 Mpps > Sub 0.8 usec latency > Flexible programmable pipeline for new network flows > ASAP2 - Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing for virtual switches/routers > Overlay tunneling technologies > Hardware Root-of-Trust and secure firmware update > Connection Tracking offload > Advanced RoCE capabilities > Best in class PTP for TSN applications > GPUDirect® for GPU-to-GPU communication > Host chaining technology for economical rack design > Platform agnostic

INDUSTRY-LEADING ROCE Following the Mellanox ConnectX tradition of industry-leading RoCE capabilities, ConnectX-6 Dx adds another layer of innovation to enable more scalable, resilient and easy-to-deploy RoCE solutions. > Zero Touch RoCE Simplifying RoCE deployments, ConnectX-6 Dx allows RoCE payloads to run seamlessly on existing networks without requiring special configuration on the network (no PFC, no ECN). New features in ConnectX-6 Dx ensure resiliency and efficiency at scale of such deployments. > Configurable Congestion Control API to build user-defined congestion control algorithms, best serving various environments and RoCE and TCP/IP traffic patterns.

Solutions > Cloud-native, Web 2.0, hyperscale > Enterprise data-centers > Cyber security > Big data analytics > Scale-out compute and storage infrastructure > Telco and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) > Cloud storage > Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) > Media and Entertainment

SECURITY FROM ZERO TRUST TO HERO TRUST.
In an era where privacy of information is key and zero trust is the rule, ConnectX-6 Dx adapters offer a range of advanced built-in capabilities that bring security down to the endpoints with unprecedented performance and scalability, including: > Probes & DoS Attack Protection ConnectX-6 Dx enables a hardware-based L4 firewall by offloading stateful connection tracking through Mellanox ASAP2 - Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing®. > NIC Security Hardware Root-of-Trust (RoT) Secure Boot and secure firmware update using RSA cryptography, and cloning-protection, via a device-unique secret key. ADVANCED VIRTUALIZATION ConnectX-6 Dx delivers another level of innovation to enable building highly efficient virtualized cloud data centers: > Virtualization Mellanox ASAP2 technology for vSwitch/vRouter hardware offload delivers orders of magnitude higher performance vs. software-based solutions. ConnectX-6 Dx ASAP2 offers both SR-IOV and VirtIO in-hardware offload capabilities, and supports up to 8 million rules. > Advanced Quality of Service Includes traffic shaping and classification-based data policing.