NVIDIA MCX556M-ECAT-S25 ConnectX-5 VPI Adapter Card with Socket Direct Supporting Dual-Socket Server EDR InfiniBand and 100GbE Dual-Port QSFP28 2x PCIe 3.0 x8 25cm Harness Tall Bracket ROHS R6
ConnectX-5 VPI Socket Direct EDR IB and 100GbE InfiniBand & Ethernet Adapter Card
Intelligent RDMA-enabled network adapter card with advanced application offload capabilities supporting 100Gb/s for servers without x16 PCIe slots.
ConnectX-5 Socket Direct with Virtual Protocol Interconnect supports two ports of 100Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, very low latency, and very high message rate, OVS and NVMe over Fabric offloads, providing the highest performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding applications and markets: Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and more.
Features
Socket Direct, enabling 100Gb/s for servers without x16 PCIe slots
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
Enhanced vSwitch/vRouter offloads
Flexible pipeline
RoCE for overlay networks
RoHS compliant
ODCC compatible
Benefits
Up to 100Gb/s connectivity per port
Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilization and high message rate
Low latency for dual-socket servers in environments with multiple network flows
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
