MLX-MCX556A-ECAT-00
MPN: MCX556A-ECAT

Mellanox MCX556A-ECAT ConnectX-5 VPI Adapter Card - 100 GbE - QSFP28 - Dual Port - EDR InfiniBand

Highlights

NVIDIA MCX556A-ECAT ConnectX-5 VPI Adapter Card EDR InfiniBand and 100GbE Dual-Port QSFP28 PCIe 3.0 x16 Tall Bracket ROHS R6100Gb/s InfiniBand & Ethernet (VPI) Adapter Card

ConnectX-4 network adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI), supporting FDR IB and 40/56GbE connectivity, provide the highest performance and most flexible solution for high-performance, Web 2.0, Cloud, data analytics, database, and storage platforms.

With the exponential growth of data being shared and stored by applications and social networks, the need for high-speed and high performance compute and storage data centers is skyrocketing.

ConnectX-4 provides exceptional high performance for the most demanding data centers, public and private clouds, Web2.0 and Big Data applications, as well as High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Storage systems, enabling today's corporations to meet the demands of the data explosion.

Features

  • Tag matching and rendezvous offloads
  • Adaptive routing on reliable transport
  • Burst buffer offloads for background checkpointing
  • NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) offloads
  • Back-end switch elimination by host chaining
  • Embedded PCIe switch
  • Enhanced vSwitch/vRouter offloads
  • Flexible pipeline
  • RoCE for overlay networks
  • PCIe Gen 4.0 support
  • RoHS compliant
  • ODCC compatible

Benefits

  • Up to 100Gb/s connectivity per port
  • Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilization and high message rate
  • Innovative rack design for storage and Machine Learning based on Host Chaining technology
  • Smart interconnect for x86, Power, Arm, and GPU-based compute and storage platforms
  • Advanced storage capabilities including NVMe over Fabric offloads
  • Intelligent network adapter supporting flexible pipeline programmability
  • Cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks including Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
  • Enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities
  • Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity

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