Mellanox ConnectX®-3 VPI single port QSFP, FDR IB (56Gb/s),PCI-E x8 LP

•  Virtual Protocol Interconnect
•  1µs MPI ping latency
•  Up to 56Gb/s InfiniBand or 40 Gigabit Ethernet per port
•  Single-Port
•  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: MCX353A-FCBS
Form Factor: Plug-in card
Physical Dimensions without Bracket: 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), & FDR (14.0625Gb/s per lane).
* Ethernet
- 40GBASE-R4, 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: 1x QSFP+
Data Rate: InfiniBand FDR 56Gb/s, Ethernet 40Gb/s.
Cabling Type: Optical & Copper
Power and Environmental:
- Voltage: 12V, 3.3V
- Typ Power: Passive Cables 6.71W, Active Cables 8.41W.
- Max Power: Passive Cables 8.13W, Active Cables 10.13W.
- 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