SKU : 226208 Mfg. Part No. : MCX555A-ECAT
Network Interface Card - PCI-Express 3.0 x16 Bus - QSFP28 Connector(s) - 1-Port - Mellanox ConnectX-5 Chipset - FDR/EDR Infiniband (100Gbps) / 40/50/100GbE Ethernet Standard - Low-Profile Form Factor - 1x QSFP28 Ports (100Gb)
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ConnectX-5 Dual-Port VPI Adapter supporting EDR IB and 100GbE
ConnectX-5 with Virtual Protocol Interconnect supports two ports of 100Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, 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.
ConnectX-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 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.