NVIDIA MCX555A-ECAT

Mellanox MCX556A-ECAT Overview

Mellanox ConnectX-5 VPI Adapter Card, EDR IB (100 Gb/s) and 100 GbE, Single-Port QSFP28, PCIe 3.0 x16, Tall Bracket.

ConnectX-5 with Virtual Protocol Interconnect? supports two ports of 100 Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, sub-600ns latency, and extremely high message rates. It also features a 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.

Benefits:

• Tag matching and rendezvous offloads

• Adaptive routing on reliable transport

• Burst buffer offloads for background checkpointing

• NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) offloads

• Elimination of back-end switches via host chaining

• Integrated PCIe switch

• Enhanced vSwitch/vRouter offloads

• Flexible pipeline

• RoCE for overlay networks

• PCIe Gen 4 support

Key Features:

• Up to 100 Gb/s connectivity per port

• Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilization, and high message rate

• Maximizes data center ROI with Multi-Host technology

• Innovative rack design for storage and Machine Learning based on Host Chaining technology

• Intelligent interconnect for x86, Power, ARM, and GPU-based computing and storage platforms

• Advanced storage capabilities, including NVMe over Fabric offloads¹

• Intelligent network adapter supporting flexible pipeline programmability²

• Cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks, including Network Function Virtualization (N³FV)

• Enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities

• Efficient I/O consolidation, reducing data center costs and complexity

Quick Specification

Table 1 shows the quick specifications.