World's first 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand and Ethernet network adapter card, offering world-leading performance, smart offloads and In-Network Computing, leading to the highest return on investment for High Performance Computing, Cloud, Web 2.0, Storage and Machine Learning applications.
Details
ConnectX-6 Single/Dual-Port Adapter supporting 200Gb/s with VPI
Intelligent ConnectX-6 adapter cards, the newest additions to the Mellanox Smart Interconnect suite and supporting Co-Design and In-Network Compute, introduce new acceleration engines for maximising High Performance, Machine Learning, Web 2.0, Cloud, Data Analytics and Storage platforms.
ConnectX-6 with Virtual Protocol Interconnect supports two ports of 200Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, sub-600 nanosecond latency, and 200 million messages per second, providing the highest performanvce and most flexible solution for the most demanding applications and markets.
ConnectX-6 VPI delivers the highest throughput and message rate in the industry. As the first adapter to deliver 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand, 100Gb/s HDR100 InfiniBand and 200Gb/s Ethernet speeds, ConnectX-6 VPI is the perfect product to lead HPC data centres toward Exascale levels of performance and scalability.
ConnectX-6 offers a crucial innovation to network security by providing block-level encryption. Data in transit undergoes encryption and decryption as it is stored or retrieved. The encryption/decryption is offloaded by the ConnectX-6 hardware, saving latency and offloading CPU. ConnectX-6 block-level encryption offload enables protection between users sharing the same resources, as different encryption keys can be used.
Benefits
- Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilisation and high message rate
- 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
- Cutting-edge performance in virtualised networks including Network Function Virtualisation (NFV)
- Enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities
Key Features
- HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand or 200Gb/s Ethernet per port and all lower speeds
- Up to 200M messages/second
- Tag Matching and Rendezvous Offloads
- Adaptive Routing on Reliable Transport
- Burst Buffer Offloads for Background Checkpointing
- NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) Target Offloads
- Back-End Switch Elimination by Host Chaining
- Enhanced vSwitch/vRouter Offloads
- Flexible Pipeline
- RoCE for Overlay Networks
- PCIe Gen3 and Gen4 Support
- Erasure Coding offload
- IBM CAPI v2 support
- T10-DIF Signature Handover
- Mellanox PeerDirect communication
- Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic
- End-to-end QoS and congestion control
- Hardware-based I/O virtualisation
| Manufacturer | Mellanox |
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| Part No. | MCX653106A-ECAT |
| End of Life? | No |
| Advanced Network Features |
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| Bandwidth | Max 200Gb/s |
| Channels | 16 million I/O channels |
| Host OS Support | RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, Windows, FreeBSD, VMWare, OFED, WinOF-2 |
| I/O Virtualisation |
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| Supported Software | HPC Software Libraries: HPC-X, OpenMPI, MVAPICH, MPICH, Open SHMEM, PGAS and varied commercial packages |
| PCI Slot(s) | Gen 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1 compatible |
| Ports | Up to 200Gb/s connectivity per port |
| Port-Port Latency | Sub 0.6usec latency |
| IEEE Compliance |
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| RoHS | RoHS R6 |