Mellanox ConnectX®-3 VPI dual port QSFP, FDR10 IB (40Gb/s),PCI-E x8

Features & Benefits:
ConnectX-3 adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) supporting InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity provide the highest performing and most flexible interconnect solution for PCI Express Gen3 servers used in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments.  Clustered data bases, parallel processing, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation.  ConnectX-3 with VPI also simplifies system development by serving multiple fabrics with one hardware design.
•  Virtual Protocol Interconnect
•  1µs MPI ping latency
•  Up to 56Gb/s InfiniBand or 40 Gigabit Ethernet per port
•  Single-Port and Dual-Port options available
•  PCI Express 3.0 (up to 8GT/s)
•  CPU offload of transport operations
•  Application offload
•  GPU communication acceleration
•  Precision Clock Synchronization
•  End-to-end QoS and congestion control
•  Hardware-based I/O virtualization
•  Fibre Channel encapsulation (FCoIB or FCoE)
•  Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)

Specifications:
•  Adapter Features
Ordering Part Number: MCX354A-TCBT
Form Factor: Plug-in card
Physical Dimensions: 2.12" x 5.6" (53.59mm x 142.25 mm)
Protocol Support:
* InfiniBand
- InfiniBand IBTA v1.2.1
- Auto-Negotiationa SDR (2.5Gb/s per lane), DDR (5Gb/s per lane), QDR (10Gb/s per lane), & FDR10 (10.3125Gb/s per lane)
* Ethernet
- 10GBASE-CX4, 10GBASE-R, & 1000BASE-R.
Host Bus Interface: PCI Express Gen3, 8GT/s. 2.0 and 1.1 compatible.
Lane: x8 lanes
Connector Slot: 2x QSFP+
Data Rate: InfiniBand FDR10 40Gb/s, Ethernet 10Gb/s.
Cabling Type: Optical & Copper
Power and Environmental:
- Voltage: 12V, 3.3V
- Typ Power: Passive Cables 6.84W, Active Cables 8.14W.
- Max Power: Passive Cables 7.82W, Active Cables 9.32W.
- Temperature: 0°C to 55°C
- Air Flow: 200LFMc
Regulatory:
- EMC:
- Safety: IEC/EN 60950-1:2006, ETSI EN 300 019-2-2, IEC 60068-2- 64, 29, 32.
- RoHS: RoHS-R6
•  Networking Features
INFINIBAND
- IBTA Specification 1.2.1 compliant
- Hardware-based congestion control
- 16 million I/O channels
- 256 to 4Kbyte MTU, 1Gbyte messages
ENHANCED INFINIBAND
- Hardware-based reliable transport
- Collective operations offloads
- GPU communication acceleration
- Hardware-based reliable multicast
- Extended Reliable Connected transport
- Enhanced Atomic operations
ETHERNET
- IEEE Std 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE Std 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE Std 802.3ad Link Aggregation and Failover
- IEEE Std 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
- IEEE Std 802.1Q, .1p VLAN tags and priority
- IEEE Std 802.1Qau Congestion Notification
- IEEE P802.1Qaz D0.2 ETS
- IEEE P802.1Qbb D1.0 Priority-based Flow Control
- Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)
HARDWARE-BASED I/O VIRTUALIZATION
- Single Root IOV
- Address translation and protection
- Dedicated adapter resources
- Multiple queues per virtual machine
- Enhanced QoS for vNICs
- VMware NetQueue support
ADDITIONAL CPU OFFLOADS
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet
- TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
- Intelligent interrupt coalescence
FLEXBOOT™ TECHNOLOGY
- Remote boot over InfiniBand
- Remote boot over Ethernet
- Remote boot over iSCSI
PROTOCOL SUPPORT
- Open MPI, OSU MVAPICH, Intel MPI, MS
- MPI, Platform MPI
- TCP/UDP, EoIB, IPoIB, SDP, RDS
- SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA
- uDAPL
•  Compatibility
PCI EXPRESS INTERFACE
- PCIe Base 3.0 compliant, 1.1 and 2.0 compatible
- 2.5, 5.0, or 8.0GT/s link rate x8
- Auto-negotiates to x8, x4, x2, or x1
- Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms
CONNECTIVITY
- Interoperable with InfiniBand or 10/40GbE switches
- Passive copper cable with ESD protection
- Powered connectors for optical and active cable support
- QSFP to SFP+ connectivity through QSA module
OPERATING SYSTEMS/DISTRIBUTIONS
- Novell SLES, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008/CCS 2003, HPC Server 2008
- OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF)
- VMware ESX Server 3.5, vSphere 4.0/4.1