ConnectX IB - Dual-Port InfiniBand Adapter Devices with PCI Express 2.0

Overview

Mellanox ConnectX IB InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) devices deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth for performance-driven server and storage clustering applications in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. Clustered data bases, parallelized applications, 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 IB simplifies network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, storage, and management I/O and providing enhanced performance in virtualized server environments. The devices are well suited for Blade Server and Landed on Motherboard designs due to their small overall footprint requirement.

Key Features

• Single chip architecture
  – Integrated SerDes
  – No local memory needed
• 1.2us MPI ping latency
• 10, 20Gb/s, or 40Gb/s InfiniBand ports
• CPU offload of transport operations
• End-to-end QoS and congestion control
• Hardware-based I/O virtualization
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload