Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI InfiniBand PCI-E3x8 Card

Description

• Application offload
• 1ìs MPI ping latency
• Virtual Protocol Interconnect
• PCI Express 3.0 (up to 8GT/s)
• GPU communication acceleration
• CPU offload of transport operations
• Single- and Dual-Port options available
• Fibre Channel encapsulation (FCoIB or FCoE)
• Up to 56Gb/s InfiniBand or 40 Gigabit Ethernet per port

ConnectX-3 adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) supporting InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity provide the highest performing and most flexible interconnect solution for PCI Express Gen3 servers used in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments.

Clustered data bases, parallel processing, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation ConnectX-3 with VPI also simplifies system development by serving multiple fabrics with one hardware design.