Intelligent ConnectX-5 adapter cards introduce an acceleration engines for maximizing High Performance, Web 2.0, Cloud, Data Analytics and Storage platforms. ConnectX-5 with Virtual Protocol Interconnect supports two ports of 100 Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, sub-600 nanosecond latency, and very high message rate, plus PCIe switch and NVMe over Fabric offloads, providing extremely high performance and really flexible solution for even demanding applications and markets.
ConnectX-5 enables higher HPC performance with its Message Passing Interface (MPI) offloads, such as MPI Tag Matching and MPI AlltoAll operations, advanced dynamic routing, and great capabilities to perform various data algorithms. Moreover, ConnectX-5 Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing (ASAP2) technology enhances offloading of virtual switches, for example, Open V-Switch (OVS), which results in significantly higher data transfer performance without overloading the CPU.
- 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.
- Advanced performance in virtualized networks including Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
- Enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities.
- EDR 100 Gb/s InfiniBand or 100 Gb/s Ethernet per port and all lower speeds.
- Adaptive routing on reliable transport.
- Enhanced Dynamic Connected Transport (DCT).
- Burst buffer offloads for background checkpointing.
- NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) target offloads.
- Back-end switch elimination by host chaining.
- Embedded PCIe switch.
- Enhanced vSwitch / vRouter offloads.
- Flexible pipeline.
- RoCE for overlay networks.
- PCIe Gen 4 support.
- Erasure Coding offload.
- Mellanox PeerDirect communication acceleration.
- Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic.
- End-to-end QoS and congestion control.
- Hardware-based I/O virtualization
