Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual-Port QSFP+ 40GbE VPI NIC - PCIe 3.0 x8 for InfiniBand/Ethernet with Hardware Offload & RoCE Support

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)--latency as low as 1us

Traffic steering across multiple cores

Microsoft VMQ