MELLANOX ConnectX-5 VPI Adapter Card - PCI Express 3.0 x16 - Optical Fiber MCX555A-ECAT

Mellanox ConnectX-5 VPI Adapter Card - PCI Express 3.0 x16 - Optical Fiber

Intelligent RDMA-enabled network adapter card with advanced application offload capabilities for High-Performance Computing, Web2.0, Cloud, and Storage platformsConnectX-5 with Virtual Protocol Interconnect supports two ports of 100Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, sub-600 ns latency, and very high message rate, plus PCIe switch and NVMe over Fabric offloads, providing the highest performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding applications and markets: Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and more.HPC EnvironmentsConnectX-5 delivers high bandwidth, low latency, and high computation efficiency for high performance, data intensive and scalable compute and storage platforms. ConnectX-5 offers enhancements to HPC infrastructures by providing MPI and SHMEM/PGAS and Rendezvous Tag Matching offload, hardware support for out-of- order RDMA Write and Read operations, as well as additional Network Atomic and PCIe Atomic operations support.ConnectX-5 VPI utilizes both IBTA RDMA (Remote Data Memory Access) and RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) technologies, delivering low-latency and high performance. ConnectX-5 enhances RDMA network capabilities by completing the Switch Adaptive-Routing capabilities and supporting data delivered out-of- order, while maintaining ordered completion semantics, providing multipath reliability and efficient support for all network topologies including DragonFly and DragonFly+.ConnectX-5 also supports Burst Buffer offload for background checkpointing without interfering in the main CPU operations, and the innovative transport service Dynamic Connected Transport (DCT) to ensure extreme scalability for compute and storage systems.

Technical Specifications:
Host Interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
Total Number of Ports: 1
Expansion Slot Type: QSFP28
Media Type Supported: Optical Fiber
Network Technology: 100GBase-X
Form Factor: Plug-in Card
Width: 2.7"
Depth: 5.6"
Device Supported: Server
Environmentally Friendly: Yes
Environmental Certification: RoHS-6