Specification
Two 56 Gigabit QSFP+ Ethernet ports
Compliant with QSFP+ MSA Spec Rev 1.0
Two QSFP ports supporting FDR-14 InfiniBand or 56Gb Ethernet
Support for InfiniBand FDR speeds of up to 56Gbps (auto-negotiation FDR-10, DDR and SDR)
Virtual protocol interconnect (VPI)
InfiniBand Architecture specification v 1.2. 1 compliant
IEEE Std. 802.3 compliant
Support for SFP+ cables available through QSA (Quad to Serial)
CORE-Direct*R 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 56GbEthernet (supported with both non-virtualized and SR-IOV enable virtualized servers)--latency as low as 1us
Traffic steering across multiple cores
Microsoft VMQ/VMware Net Queue support
Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
Legacy and UEFI PXE network boot support
Supports iSCSI as a software iSCSI initiator in NIC mode with NIC driver
Package content 1 x PCIe x8 Mellanox Connectx-3 Dual-Port 56G QSFP adapter
1 x User's Manual
1 x CD Driver
1 x Low profile bracket