Mellanox InfiniHost™ III Lx Single-Port 10 or 20Gb/s 4X InfiniBand HCA with PCI Express x8

Overview

The Mellanox InfiniHost™ III Lx is a single-port 4X InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) silicon device that enables the expansion of PCI Express infrastructure in the data center and high performance computing environments. The 4X InfiniBand port on the InfiniHost III Lx supports either 10Gb/s (SDR version) or 20Gb/s (DDR version). The InfiniBand port features four integrated 2.5Gb/s (SDR version) or 5Gb/s (DDR version) SerDes interfaces eliminating the requirement for external physical layer devices.

KEY FEATURES:

• Enables expansion of PCI Express infrastructure in the Data Center
• Supports Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Hardware Transport
• InfiniBand Version 1.2 Compatible Host/Target Channel Adapter (HCA/TCA)
• Supports 16 million QPs, EEs & CQs
• Multicast support
• Programmable MTU Size from 256 to 2K bytes
• Four Virtual Lanes supported plus Management Lane
• Support for 2GB messages
• Support for IPv6 inter-subnet routing
• Integrated 2.5Gb/s (SDR version) or 5Gb/s (DDR version) SerDes Transceivers
• Hardware backward compatibility with previous InfiniBand infrastructure
• Software compatible with existing device drivers interface and ULPs
  for faster time to market
• Support MSI-X (Message Signaled Interrupts)
• Embedded InfiniRISC™ processors for management & special functions
• Flexible Completion Mechanism Support (completion queue, event, or polled operation)
• Large on-chip InfiniBand port buffers
• 0.13um process technology
• ROHS-R5 Compliant