Solarflare XtremeScale X2541 Single-Port 100GbE NIC - Part ID: X2541

Designed from the ground up for virtualized dense server environments Solarflare XtremeScale X2 adapters are the most cost-effective network adapters in the industry for Ethernet connectivity. At the same time, XtremeScale acceleration provides record-breaking low latency and throughput needed for today’s modern class of applications. X2 is the most secure standard adapter with integrated hardware firewalls. XtremeScale X2 is the only general-purpose adapter with 2,048 virtual NICs, a programmable packet processing engine for network off-load and real-time packet/flow capture required by your network performance management and analytics platforms.

The challenge with distributed apps is keeping hardware and system latency low while scaling to thousands of tasks running across thousands of cores. The X2541 harnesses kernel bypass acceleration to deliver superior small packet performance with hardware latency as low as one-half a microsecond. Solarflare kernel bypass technologies include Onload®, Cloud Onload™ and DPDK acceleration services, providing servers the headroom needed to handle more processes in the same amount of time and with fewer servers.

Solarflare’s Cloud Onload software dramatically accelerates and scales network-intensive applications such as in-memory databases, software load balancers, and web servers. With Cloud Onload, data centers can support 4X or more users on their cloud network while delivering improved reliability, enhanced quality of service (QoS) and higher return on investment, without modification to existing applications.