SHARQ SmartNIC CX-5 Dual-100GbE QSFP28

Адаптеры Mellanox ConnectX-5 Dual-Port 100G Ethernet с интерфейсом PCIe x16 обеспечивают высокопроизводительное и гибкое решение с двумя портами InfiniBand 100 Гбит/с и Ethernet 100 Гбит/с, низкой задержкой и высокой скоростью передачи данных, а также встроенным коммутатором PCIe и поддержкой разгрузки NVMe over Fabrics. Эти интеллектуальные адаптеры с поддержкой удаленного прямого доступа к памяти (RDMA) обеспечивают расширенные возможности разгрузки приложений для высокопроизводительных вычислений (HPC), облачных гипермасштабируемых платформ и платформ хранения данных.

Характеристики
– PCI Express Gen 3.0 and 4.0, 1.1 and 2.0 compatible
– 2.5, 5.0, 8.0, 16.0 GT/s link rate
– Embedded PCIe Switch: Up to 8 bifurcations
– Tag matching and rendezvous offloads
– Adaptive routing on reliable transport
– Burst buffer offloads for background checkpointing
– NVMe over Fabric offloads
– Backend switch elimination by host chaining
– Enhanced vSwitch/vRouter offloads
– RoCE for overlay networks
– Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilization and high message rate
– Innovative rack design for storage and Machine Learning based on Host Chaining technology
– Smart interconnect for x86, Power, Arm, and GPU-based compute & 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

RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
ConnectX-5 supports RoCE specifications delivering low-latency and high-performance over Ethernet networks. Leveraging data center bridging (DCB) capabilities as well as ConnectX-5 advanced congestion control hardware mechanisms, 
RoCE provides efficient low-latency RDMA services over Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks.

Enhanced Features
– Hardware-based reliable transport
– Collective operations offloads
– Vector collective operations offloads
– Mellanox PeerDirect® RDMA (aka GPUDirect®) communication acceleration
– 64/66 encoding
– Extended Reliable Connected transport (XRC)
– Dynamically Connected Transport (DCT)
– Enhanced Atomic operations
– Advanced memory mapping support, allowing user mode registration and remapping of memory (UMR)
– On demand paging (ODP)
– MPI Tag Matching
– Rendezvous protocol offload
– Out-of-order RDMA supporting Adaptive Routing
– Burst buffer offload
– In-Network Memory registration-free RDMA memory access
– Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)

Software Support
All Mellanox adapter cards are supported by Windows, Linux distributions, VMware, FreeBSD, and Citrix XENServer. ConnectX-5 adapters support OpenFabrics-based RDMA protocols and softw