- Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
- Low-profile form factor adapter with 2U bracket
- PCI Express 3.0 x 8 host-interface
- SR-IOV support; 16 virtual functions supported by KVM and Hyper-V up to a maximum of 127 virtual functions supported by the adapter
- Enables Low Latency RDMA over Ethernet - latency as low as 1 µs
- TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload in hardware
- Traffic steering across multiple cores
- Intelligent interrupt coalescence
- Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
- Software compatible with standard TCP/UDP/IP stacks
- Microsoft VMQ / VMware NetQueue support
- Legacy and UEFI PXE network boot support
High-performance computing (HPC) solutions require high bandwidth, low latency components with CPU offloads to get the highest server efficiency and application productivity. The Mellanox ConnectX-3 network adapters for IBM System x servers deliver the I/O performance that meets these requirements. Mellanox's ConnectX-3 ASIC delivers low latency, high bandwidth, and computing efficiency for performance-driven server applications. Efficient computing is achieved by offloading from the CPU routine activities, which makes more processor power available for the application. Network protocol processing and data movement impacts, such as InfiniBand RDMA and Send/Receive semantics, are completed in the adapter without CPU intervention. RDMA support extends to virtual servers when SR-IOV is enabled. Mellanox's ConnectX-3 advanced acceleration technology enables higher cluster efficiency and scalability of up to tens of thousands of nodes.