Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR VPI IB/E Adapter and Dual Port 10GbE IB Adapter

HPC solutions require high-bandwidth, low-latency components with CPU offloads to get the highest server efficiency and application productivity.

The Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR VPI IB/E and Dual Port 10GbE IB adapters for IBM System x deliver the I/O performance that meets these requirements.

IB ConnectX-3 delivers low latency, high bandwidth, and computing efficiency for performance-driven server and storage clustering applications. Efficient computing is achieved by offloading from the CPU routine activities, which makes more processor power available for the application. Network protocol processing and data movement impacts, such as IB RDMA and Send/Receive semantics, are completed in the adapter without CPU intervention. The ConnectX-3 advanced acceleration technology enables higher cluster efficiency and scalability of up to tens of thousands of nodes.

ConnectX-3 with Virtual Intelligent Queuing (Virtual-IQ) technology provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines within the server. I/O virtualization with ConnectX-3 gives data center managers better server utilization and LAN and SAN unification while reducing cost, power and cable complexity.

Features of the 56Gbps IB and 10GbE adapters

Performance and low latency
Scalability for tens-of-thousands of nodes
ROI
Efficiency, maintaining balanced system to ensure productivity
No artificial bottlenecks, performance match for PCIe 2.0
Fulfill multiprocess networking requirements
Designed for minimal performance degradation
Performance-driven architecture
MPI latency 1μs, 6.6Gbps with 56Gbps IB (bidirectional)
MPI message rate of greater than 56 million per second
Application performance
Can increase HPC applications performance from 30% to over 100%
Doubles the storage throughput, reducing backup time in half

Warranty
One year limited warranty

Key prerequisites
A selected System x server with an available PCIe expansion slot.

Note: Each FDR VPI IB/E adapter (00D9550) requires one 3U bracket (00D9684) to be ordered, and each 10 GbE adapter (00D9690) requires one 3U bracket (00D9687) to be ordered. This allows you to select the proper bracket, based on your particular configuration.

Planned availability date

February 15, 2013: Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR VPI IB/E Adapter for IBM System x (00D9550)
February 26, 2013: Mellanox ConnectX-3 10 GbE Adapter for IBM System x (00D9690)