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Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI Dual Port FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Adapter Card, PCIe 3.0 x16 - Part ID: MCX456A-FCAT
SKU: MCX456A-FCAT
Manufacturer: Mellanox
ConnectX-4 VPI adapter card, FDR IB (56Gb/s) and 40/56GbE, dual-port QSFP28, PCIe 3.0 x16, tall bracket, ROHS R6 More details...
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Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI Dual Port FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Adapter Card, PCIe 3.0 x16 - Part ID: MCX456A-FCAT
Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI Dual Port FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Adapter Card, PCIe 3.0 x16 - Part ID: MCX456A-FCAT
 
Product Details
Mellanox ConnectX®-4 VPI Adapters

ConnectX-4 offers the highest throughput VPI adapter, supporting up to EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand and 100Gb/s Ethernet and enabling any standard networking, clustering, or storage to operate seamlessly over any converged network leveraging a consolidated software stack.

Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI)
ConnectX-4 enabled CAPI provides the best performance for Power and OpenPower based platforms. Such platforms benefit from better interaction between the Power CPU and the ConnectX-4 adapter, lower latency, higher efficiency of storage access, and better Return on Investment (ROI), as more applications and more Virtual Machines run on the platform.

I/O Virtualization
ConnectX-4 SR-IOV technology provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines (VMs) within the server. I/O virtualization with ConnectX-4 gives data center administrators better server utilization while reducing cost, power, and cable complexity, allowing more Virtual Machines and more tenants on the same hardware.

Benefits
  • Highest performing silicon for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency and high message rate
  • World-class cluster, network, and storage performance
  • Smart interconnect for x86, Power, ARM, and GPU-based compute and storage platforms
  • Cutting-edge performance in virtualized overlay networks (VXLAN and NVGRE)
  • Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity
  • Virtualization acceleration
  • Power efficiency
  • Scalability to tens-of-thousands of nodes
Key Features
  • 10/20/25/40/50/56/100Gb/s speeds
  • 150M messages/second
  • Single and dual-port options available
  • Erasure Coding offload
  • T10-DIF Signature Handover
  • Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI)
  • Power8 CAPI support
  • CPU offloading of transport operations
  • Application offloading
  • Mellanox PeerDirectTM communication acceleration
  • Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic
  • End-to-end QoS and congestion control
  • Hardware-based I/O virtualization
  • Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)
  • RoHS-R6


Feature Summary

INFINIBAND
–– 2 ports EDR / FDR / QDR / DDR / SDR
–– IBTA Specification 1.3 compliant
–– RDMA, Send/Receive semantics
–– Hardware-based congestion control
–– Atomic operations
–– 16 million I/O channels
–– 256 to 4Kbyte MTU, 2Gbyte messages
–– 8 virtual lanes + VL15

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

ETHERNET
–– 100GbE / 56GbE / 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, 50/56GBASE-R4)
–– IEEE 802.3ad, 802.1AX Link Aggregation
–– IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
–– IEEE 802.1Qau (QCN) – Congestion Notification
–– IEEE 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
–– PeerDirect 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
–– T10 DIF - Signature handover operation at wire speed, for ingress and egress traffic

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
–– Virtualization hierarchies (e.g. NPAR)
»» 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 InfiniBand
–– 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 x16
–– Auto-negotiates to
–– x16, x8, x4, x2, or x1
–– Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms
–– Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI)

CONNECTIVITY
–– Interoperable with InfiniBand or 10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet switches
–– Passive copper cable with ESD protection
–– Powered connectors for optical and active cable support


Manufacturer Warranty
1 Year
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