Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI IC

Single/Dual-Port Adapter Device with Virtual Protocol Interconnect

ConnectX-3 adapter devices with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) supporting InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity provide the highest performing and most flexible interconnect solution for PCI Express Gen3 Blade Server and Landed on Motherboard designs used in Enterprise Data Centres, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments.

Clustered databases, parallel processing, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation. ConnectX-3 with VPI also simplifies system development by serving multiple fabrics with one hardware design.

Benefits

• One design for InfiniBand, 10/40Gig Ethernet or Data Centre Bridging fabrics
• World-class cluster, network, and storage performance
• Guaranteed bandwidth and low latency services
• I/O consolidation
• Virtualisation acceleration
• Scales to tens-of-thousands of nodes
• Small PCB footprint

Key Features

• 1us MPI ping latency
• Up to 56Gb/s InfiniBand or 40 Gigabit Ethernet per port
• PCI Express 3.0 (up to 8GT/s)
• CPU offload of transport operations
• Application offload
• GPU communication acceleration
• Precision Clock Synchronisation
• End-to-end QoS and congestion control
• Hardware-based I/O virtualisation
• Dynamic power management
• Fibre Channel encapsulation (FCoIB or FCoE)
• Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)
• 17mm x 17mm RoHS-R6