NVIDIA Mellanox® MCX516A-CCAT alternative ConnectX-5 NIC PCIe 3.0 x16 Dual Port 100GbE QSFP28

The PCIe x16 NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-5 Dual-Port 100G Ethernet Adapter Cards provide a high performance and flexible solution with two ports of 100Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, low latency, and a high message rate, plus an embedded PCIe switch and NVMe over Fabrics offloads. These intelligent remote direct memory access (RDMA) -enabled adapters provide advanced application offload capabilities for high-performance computing (HPC), cloud hyperscale, and storage platforms.

System Requirements

• Windows, RHEL/CentOS, FreeBSD, VMware, OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED), Open Fabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF)
• An available PCI Express x16 slot

Specification

• 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 centre costs and complexity