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NVIDIA ConnectX-5

Overview

NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-5 adapters offer advanced hardware offloads to reduce CPU resource consumption and drive extremely high packet rates and throughput. This boosts data center infrastructure efficiency and provides the highest performance and most flexible solution for Web 2.0, Cloud, Data Analytics and Storage platforms.

Single/Dual-Port 100Gb/s Ethernet Adapter

ConnectX-5 Ethernet adapter cards provide a high performance and flexible solution that deliver a range of innovative offloads and accelerators in hardware for increased efficiency for data center network and storage connectivity. ConnectX-5 adapter cards bring advanced Open vSwitch offloads to telecommunications and cloud service providers and enterprise data centers to drive extremely high packet rates and throughput, thus boosting data center infrastructure efficiency.

Key Features

• Maximum up to 100Gb/s Ethernet per port
• Adaptive routing on reliable transport
• NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) target offloads
• Enhanced vSwitch / vRouter offloads
• Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic
• End-to-end QoS and congestion control

Benefits

• Industry-leading throughput, low latency/CPU utilization and high message rate
• Innovative rack design for storage and ML based on Host Chaining technology
• Smart interconnect for x86, Power, ARM, and GPU-based compute and storage
• Advanced storage capabilities including NVMe over Fabric offloads
• Cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks including NFV
• Enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities