Mellanox Technologies has announced Connect-IB, a series of host channel adapter cards which offer up to 100Gb/s, sub-microsecond ltency and 130 million messages per second. Connect-IB is optimized for multi-tenant environments of hundreds of Virtual Machines per server, using PCI Express 3.0 x16 and FDR InfiniBand to offload CPU protocol processing and data movement to the interconnect.
Mellanox Technologies has announced Connect-IB, a series of host channel adapter cards which offer up to 100Gb/s, sub-microsecond ltency and 130 million messages per second. Connect-IB is optimized for multi-tenant environments of hundreds of Virtual Machines per server, using PCI Express 3.0 x16 and FDR InfiniBand to offload CPU protocol processing and data movement to the interconnect.
The Connect-IB product line consists of single and dual port adapters for PCI Express 3.0 with options for x8 and x16 host bus interfaces as well as a single port adapter for PCI Express 2.0 x16. Each port supports FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand with MPI ping latency less than 1us. All Mellanox HCAs support CPU offload of transport operations.
Connect-IB Key Features
- Greater than 100Gb/s over InfiniBand
- Greater than 130M messages/sec
- 1us MPI ping latency
- CPU offload of transport operations
- Application offload
- GPU communication acceleration
- Dynamic Transport operation support
- New data operations, including noncontinuous memory transfers
- End-to-end QoS and congestion control
- Hardware-based I/O virtualization
- RoHS-R6
New applications such as Big Data analytics and in-memory computing along with next-generation compute servers like Intel’s Romley benefit from parallel execution and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access). Connect-IB adapters will be supported by Windows and Linux distributions and offer OpenFabrics-based RDMA protocols and software.
Availability
Adapter cards are sampling now to select customers; general availability is expected in Q3 2012.
