Mellanox InfiniHost™ - Dual-Port 10Gb/s InfiniBand HCA with PCI-X

Overview

The InfiniHost is Mellanox’s second generation InfiniBand architecture host or target channel adapter (HCA/TCA) silicon. The chip architecture unleashes 10Gb/s data center performance, and is designed to saturate dual 4X links.

InfiniHost is a single chip dual-port 10Gb/s InfiniBand host channel adapter with a PCI-X interface and integrated physical layer serializer/deserializer (SerDes) interfaces. The device features an HCA core that is capable of full wire speed transmissions over InfiniBand links. The core features a full hardware implementation of the InfiniBand architecture memory protection and translation tables, as well as, hardware transport. This reduces CPU overhead to enable the host processor to spend its cycles on applications and not on communications

KEY FEATURES:

• IBTA v1.0=2 Compatible Design
• Dual 10Gb/s InfiniBand 4X Ports
• InfiniBand Low Latency Transport
• Support for up to 16 Million Queue Pairs
• External DDR Memory support to 4 Gbytes
• Memory Protection Tables in Hardware
• InfiniBand Native Layer 4 Hardware Acceleration
• Support for Eight Data VLs plus the VL15 Management Lane
• Programmable MTU Sizes to 2K Bytes
• Support for 2GB Messages
• Integrated SMA and GSA