– Provides high-bandwidth and industry-leading Ethernet connectivity for performance-driven server and storage applications in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments.
– Clustered databases, web infrastructure, and high frequency trading are just a few applications that will achieve significant throughput and latency improvements.
– ConnectX-3 EN improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associated transport load on the CPU especially in virtualized server environments.
Description
Features :
Specification
– Support PCI-Express host interface specification v3.0 x8 with 8.0GT/s BUS width
– PCI-Express lanes: x8
– Dual-port 56 Gigabit QSFP+ Ethernet ports
– QSFP+ MSA Spec Rev 1.0 specification
– Two QSFP ports supporting FDR-14 InfiniBand or 56Gb/s Ethernet
– For InfiniBand FDR speeds of up to 56Gbps (auto-negotiation FDR-10, DDR and SDR)
– Low-profile form factor adapter with 2u bracket
– Virtual protocol interconnect (VPI)
– InfiniBand Architecture specification v1.2.1 compliant
– IEEE Std. 802.3 compliant
– Compliant with copper cables and optical cables with the use of QSFP connectors
– SFP+ cables available through QSA (Quad to Serial)
– CORE-DirectR application off-load
– GPUDirect application off-load
– RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE)
– End-to-End QoS and congestion control
– TCP, UDP and IP stateless off-load
– Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)
– SR-IOV support; 16 virtual functions supported by KVM and Hyper-V (OS dependant) up to a maximum 127 virtual functions supports by the adapter
– Enables low latency RDMA over 56GbEthernet (supported with both non-virtualized and SR-IOV enable virtualized servers) – latency as low as 1us
– Traffic steering across multiple cores
– Microsoft VMQ/VMware Net Queue support
– Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
– Legacy and UEFI PXE network boot support
– Able to run iSCSI as a software iSCSI initiator in NIC mode with NIC driver
– Drivers support for FreeBSD, Linux, VMWare ESXi, Win7 / Win-Server 2012 / Win-Server 2008 / Win8 / Win8.1 / Win-Server 2016 / Win10 / Win-Server 2019






