100g HDR Infiniband Mellanox 100gb Nic Network Interface QSFP56 MCX653106A-ECAT

MCX653106A-ECAT Benefits

* Industry-leading throughput, low CPU utilization and high message rate
* Highest performance and most intelligent fabric for compute and storage infrastructures
* Cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks including Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
* Host Chaining technology for economical rack design
* Smart interconnect for x86, Power, Arm, GPU and FPGA-based compute and storage platforms
* Flexible programmable pipeline for new network flows
* Efficient service chaining enablement
* Increased I/O consolidation efficiencies, reducing data center costs & complexity

NVMe storage devices are gaining momentum, offering very fast access to storage media. The evolving NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) protocol leverages RDMA connectivity to remotely access NVMe storage devices efficiently, while keeping the end-to-end NVMe
model at lowest latency. With its NVMe-oF target and initiator offloads, ConnectX-6 brings further optimization to NVMe-oF, enhancing CPU utilization and scalability.

Data analytics has become an essential function within many enterprise data centers, clouds, and hyperscale platforms. Machine learning (ML) relies on especially high throughput and low latency to train deep neural networks and
improve recognition and classification accuracy. With its 200Gb/s throughput, ConnectX-6 is an excellent solution to provide ML applications with the levels of
performance and scalability that they require.

ConnectX-6 block-level encryption offers a critical innovation to network security. As data in transit is stored or retrieved, it undergoes encryption and decryption. ConnectX-6 hardware offloads the IEEE AES-XTS encryption/decryption from the
CPU, saving latency and CPU utilization. It also guarantees protection for users sharing the same resources through the use of dedicated encryption keys. Moreover, ConnectX-6 can offer Federal
Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance.

ConnectX-6 is available in two form factors: low-profile stand-up PCIe and Open Compute Project (OCP) Spec 3.0 cards with QSFP connectors. Single-port, HDR, stand-up PCIe adapters are available based on either ConnectX-6 or ConnectX-6 DE (ConnectX-6 Dx enhanced for HPC applications).
In addition, specific PCIe stand-up cards are available with a cold plate for insertion into liquid-cooled Intel Server System D50TNP platforms.

With its NVIDIA In-Network Computing and In-Network Memory capabilities, ConnectX-6 offloads computation even further to the network, saving CPU cycles
and increasing network efficiency. ConnectX-6 utilizes remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology as defined in the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) specification,
delivering low latency, and high performance. ConnectX-6 enhances RDMA network capabilities even further by delivering end-to-end packet-level flow control.

ConnectX-6 MCX653106A-ECAT also provides options for NVIDIA Socket Direct™ configurations, which improves the performance of multi-socket servers by enabling each of their CPUs to
access the network through its dedicated PCIe interface. This enables data to bypass the QPI (UPI) and the other CPU, improving latency, performance, and CPU utilization. Socket Direct also enables NVIDIA GPUDirect® RDMA for all CPU/GPU pairs by ensuring that GPUs are linked to the CPUs closest to the adapter card. Socket Direct enables Intel® DDIO optimization on both sockets by creating a direct connection between the sockets and the adapter card.