Mellanox ConnectX-4 Single Port 50 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Card, PCIe 3.0 x8 - Part ID: MCX4131A-GCAT

SKU: MCX4131A-GCAT

Manufacturer: Mellanox

ConnectX-4 Lx EN network interface card, 50GbE single-port QSFP28, PCIe 3.0 x8, tall bracket, ROHS R6 More details...

Price: $499.50

Mellanox ConnectX-4 Single Port 50 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Card, PCIe 3.0 x8 - Part ID: MCX4131A-GCAT

Product Details

Mellanox ConnectX®-4 Lx EN Ethernet Adapters

10/25/40/50 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Cards supporting Multi-Host™ Technology, RDMA, Overlay Networks Encapsulation/Decapsulation and more

ConnectX-4 Lx EN Network Controller with 10/25/40/50Gb/s Ethernet connectivity addresses virtualized infrastructure challenges, delivering best-in-class and highest performance to various demanding markets and applications. Providing true hardware-based I/O isolation with unmatched scalability and efficiency, achieving the most cost-effective and flexible solution for Web 2.0, Cloud, data analytics, database, and storage platforms.

ConnectX-4 Lx EN provides an unmatched combination of 10, 25, 40, and 50GbE bandwidth, sub-microsecond latency and a 75 million packets per second message rate. It includes native hardware support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet, Ethernet stateless offload engines, Overlay Networks,and GPUDirect® Technology.

Benefits

Highest performing boards for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency and high message rate
10/25/40/50GbE connectivity for servers and storage
Standard PCIe and Open Compute Project form factor
Industry leading throughput and latency for Web 2.0, Cloud and Big Data applications
Maximizing data centers’ return on investment (ROI) with Multi-Host technology
Smart interconnect for x86, Power, ARM, and GPU-based compute and storage platforms
Cutting-edge performance in virtualized overlay networks
Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity
Virtualization acceleration
Power efficiency

Key Features

10/25/40/50Gb/s speeds
Single and dual-port options available
Multi-Host technology (specific OPNs)
Connectivity to up-to 4 independent hosts (specific OPNs)
OCP Specification 2.0 and 0.5, as applicable (specific OPNs)
Virtualization
Low latency RDMA over Converged Ethernet
CPU offloading of transport operations
Application offloading
Mellanox PeerDirectTM communication acceleration
Hardware offloads for NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE encapsulated traffic
End-to-end QoS and congestion control
Hardware-based I/O virtualization
Erasure Coding offload
RoHS-R6

Feature Summary

ETHERNET

–– 50GbE / 40GbE / 25GbE / 10GbE / 1GbE

–– IEEE 802.3bj, 802.3bm 100 Gigabit Ethernet

–– 25G Ethernet Consortium 25, 50 Gigabit Ethernet

–– IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet

–– IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet

–– IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet

–– IEEE 802.3ap based auto-negotiation and KR startup

–– Proprietary Ethernet protocols (20/40GBASE-R2, 50GBASE-R4)

–– EEE 802.3ad, 802.1AX Link Aggregation

–– IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority

–– IEEE 802.1Qau (QCN) – Congestion Notification

–– EEE 802.1Qaz (ETS)

–– IEEE 802.1Qbb (PFC)

–– IEEE 802.1Qbg

–– IEEE 1588v2

–– Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)

ENHANCED FEATURES

–– Hardware-based reliable transport

–– Collective operations offloads

–– Vector collective operations offloads

–– PeerDirectTM RDMA (aka GPUDirect communication acceleration

–– 64/66 encoding

–– Hardware-based reliable multicast

–– Extended Reliable Connected transport (XRC)

–– Dynamically Connected transport (DCT)

–– Enhanced Atomic operations

–– Advanced memory mapping support, allowing user mode registration and remapping of memory (UMR)

–– On demand paging (ODP) – registration free RDMA memory access

STORAGE OFFLOADS

–– RAID offload - erasure coding (Reed-Solomon) offload

OVERLAY NETWORKS

–– Stateless offloads for overlay networks and tunneling protocols

–– Hardware offload of encapsulation and decapsulation of NVGRE and VXLAN overlay networks

HARDWARE-BASED I/O VIRTUALIZATION

–– Single Root IOV

–– Multi-function per port

–– Address translation and protection

–– Multiple queues per virtual machine

–– Enhanced QoS for vNICs

–– VMware NetQueue support

VIRTUALIZATION

–– SR-IOV: Up to 512 Virtual Function

–– SR-IOV: Up to 16 Physical Functions per host

» Virtualizing Physical Functions on a physical port

» SR-IOV on every Physical Function

–– 1K ingress and egress QoS levels

–– Guaranteed QoS for VMs CPU OFFLOADS

–– RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)

–– TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload

–– LSO, LRO, checksum offload

–– RSS (can be done on encapsulated packet), TSS, HDS, VLAN insertion / stripping, Receive flow steering

–– Intelligent interrupt coalescence

REMOTE BOOT

–– Remote boot over Ethernet

–– Remote boot over iSCSI

–– PXE and UEFI

PROTOCOL SUPPORT

–– OpenMPI, IBM PE, OSU MPI (MVAPICH/2), Intel MPI

–– Platform MPI, UPC, Open SHMEM

–– TCP/UDP, MPLS, VxLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE

–– iSER, NFS RDMA, SMB Direct

–– uDAPL

MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL INTERFACES

–– NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe

–– Baseboard Management Controller interface

–– SDN management interface for managing the eSwitch

–– I2C interface for device control and configuration

–– General Purpose I/O pins

–– SPI interface to Flash

–– JTAG IEEE 1149.1 and IEEE 1149.6

Compatibility

PCI EXPRESS INTERFACE

–– PCIe Gen 3.0 compliant, 1.1 and 2.0 compatible

–– 2.5, 5.0, or 8.0GT/s link rate x8

–– Auto-negotiates to x8, x4, x2, or x1

–– Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms

CONNECTIVITY

–– Interoperable with 10/25/40/50Gb Ethernet switches

–– Passive copper cable with ESD protection

–– Powered connectors for optical and active cable support

Manufacturer Warranty

1 Year

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