Features And Benefits - Nvidia Mellanox User Manual

Features and Benefits

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This section describes hardware features and capabilities. Please refer to the relevant driver
and/or firmware release notes for feature availability.
Feature
PCI Express (PCIe)
200Gb/s Virtual Protocol
Interconnect (VPI) Adapter
InfiniBand Architecture
Specification v1.3
compliant
InfiniBand HDR
InfiniBand HDR100
Up to 200 Gigabit Ethernet
InfiniBand EDR
Memory Components
Uses PCIe Gen 3.0 (8GT/s) or Gen 4.0 (16GT/s) through x16 edge connector.
ConnectX-6 offers the highest throughput VPI adapter, supporting HDR 200Gb/s
InfiniBand and 200Gb/s Ethernet and enabling any standard networking,
clustering, or storage to operate seamlessly over any converged network
leveraging a consolidated software stack.
ConnectX-6 delivers low latency, high bandwidth, and computing efficiency for
performance-driven server and storage clustering applications. ConnectX-6 is
InfiniBand Architecture Specification v1.3 compliant.
A standard InfiniBand data rate, where each lane of a 4X port runs a bit rate of
53.125Gb/s with a 64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effective bandwidth of 200Gb/
s.
A standard InfiniBand data rate, where each lane of a 2X port runs a bit rate of
53.125Gb/s with a 64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effective bandwidth of 100Gb/
s.
Mellanox adapters comply with the following IEEE 802.3 standards:
• 200GbE / 100GbE / 50GbE / 40GbE / 25GbE / 10GbE / 1GbE
• IEEE 802.3bj, 802.3bm 100 Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3by, Ethernet Consortium25, 50 Gigabit Ethernet, supporting all FEC
modes
• IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3ap based auto-negotiation and KR startup
• Proprietary Ethernet protocols (20/40GBASE-R2, 50GBASE-R4)
• IEEE 802.3ad, 802.1AX Link Aggregation
• IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
• IEEE 802.1Qau (QCN)
• Congestion Notification
• IEEE 802.1Qaz (ETS)
• IEEE 802.1Qbb (PFC)
• IEEE 802.1Qbg
• IEEE 1588v2
• Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)
A standard InfiniBand data rate, where each lane of a 4X port runs a bit rate of
25.78125Gb/s with a 64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effective bandwidth of
100Gb/s.
• EEPROM - The EEPROM capacity is 32Kbit
• SPI Quad - includes 256Mbit SPI Quad Flash device (MX25L25645GXDI-08G
device by Macronix)
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