… Connect-IB IB PCIe Adapter Achieving Record Performance …

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced next-generation IB adapter, Connect-IB, achieved record performance results, enabling the creation of highly scalable server and storage connected infrastructures.

The Connect-IB dual-port 56Gb/s FDR IB adapter achieves throughput of more than 100Gb/s utilizing PCIe 3.0 x16 and over 135 million messages per second, 4.5X higher than previous or competing solutions. These performance capabilities are critical to HPC, Web 2.0, cloud, big data and financial applications which require a high rate of message communication in order to deliver faster results.

"Mellanox Connect-IB delivers the next generation interconnect architecture and performance for the world leading HPC, Web 2.0, cloud and storage infrastructures," said Michael Kagan, CTO at Mellanox. "By providing double the interconnect throughput and 4.5X the message rate, we enable applications to scale with greater performance and efficiency. Together with our server and storage partners, we pave the road to Exascale platforms."

The Connect-IB product line consists of single and dual port adapters with PCIe 3.0 with x8 and x16 host bus interface options, as well as a single port adapter for PCIe 2.0 x16. Each port supports FDR 56Gb/s IB with MPI ping latency less than 1μs.

All adapters support the CPU offload of transport operations and RDMA for efficient computing.

Connect-IB also has several features for HPC, including a new Dynamically Connected Transport service for unlimited scalability, and end-to-end data protection for data reliability.

Connect-IB adapter cards are sampling.