Messaging Accelerator (VMA)

Overview

Dramatically improves performance of socket based applications

Mellanox's Messaging Accelerator (VMA) boosts performance for message-based and streaming applications such as those found in financial services market data environments and Web2.0 clusters. The result is a reduction in latency by as much as 300% and an increase in application throughput by as much as 200% per server as compared to applications running on standard Ethernet or InfiniBand interconnect networks.

This solution lowers latency and increases transactions per second for a wide-array of applications including medical online Web Services, imaging, radar and other data acquisition systems. VMA can improve performance of any application that makes heavy use of Multicast, UDP unicast and TCP streaming and requires high packet-per-second rates, low data distribution latency, low CPU utilization or increased application scalability.


Related Documents

  • Drastically improve unicast and multicast application performance without application code changes
  • Increase throughput small packet messaging and streaming applications
  • Lower overall communication latencies
  • Increased Packet Per Second (PPS) rates
  • Improved CPU utilization

Supported OFED-Based Software Ethernet Stacks

  • Mellanox OFED-VMA 1.5.3-0003

Supported Operating Systems

  • RHEL 6 update 1 (2.6.32-131.0.15)
  • RHEL 6 (2.6.32-71)
  • RHEL 5 update 7 (2.6.18-274)
  • RHEL 5 update 6 (2.6.18-238)
  • SLES11 SP1 (2.6.32.12-0.7-default)

Supported NICs

  • Mellanox ConnectX-3

Firmware Version

  • 2.10.0000