Benefits
Why Mellanox 25/100GbE?
Mellanox continues its leadership in providing high-performance networking technologies by delivering superior utilization and scaling in ConnectX®-5 EN 10/40/56/100GbE Adapters, enabling data centers to do more with less.
Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
- Enabling I/O consolidation by supporting TCP/IP and RDMA over Ethernet transport protocols on a single adapter
- Improved productivity and efficiency
- Supports industry-standard SR-IO Virtualization technology and delivers VM protection and granular levels of I/O services to applications
- High-availability and high-performance for data center networking
- Software compatible with standard TCP/UDP/IP and iSCSI stacks
- High level silicon integration and no external memory design provides low power, low cost and high reliability
Ethernet Market Applications
- Web 2.0 data centers and cloud computing
- Low latency financial services
- Storage
- Data center virtualization
- I/O consolidation (single unified wire for networking, storage and clustering)
- Video streaming
- Enterprise data center applications
- Accelerating back-up and restore operations
Why InfiniBand?
High Performance Computing needs high bandwidth, low latency, and CPU offloads to get the highest server efficiency and application productivity. Mellanox HCAs deliver the highest bandwidth and lowest latency of any standard interconnect enabling CPU efficiencies of greater than 95%. Data centers and cloud computing require I/O services such as bandwidth, consolidation and unification, and flexibility. Mellanox's HCAs support LAN and SAN traffic consolidation and provides hardware acceleration for server virtualization.
- World-class cluster performance
- High-performance networking and storage access
- Efficient use of compute resources
- Cutting-edge performance in virtualized overlay networks (VXLAN and NVGRE)
- Increased VM per server ratio
- Guaranteed bandwidth and low-latency services
- Reliable transport
- Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity
- Scalability to tens-of-thousands of nodes
InfiniBand Market Applications
- High-performance parallelized computing
- Data center virtualization
- Public and private clouds
- Large scale Web 2.0 and data analysis applications
- Clustered database applications, parallel RDBMS queries, high-throughput data warehousing
- Latency sensitive applications such as financial analysis and trading
- Performance storage applications such as backup, restore, mirroring, etc.