Mellanox ConnectX QDR & DDR Product Details

Mellanox ConnectX blade IO cards from Dell deliver low-latency and high-bandwidth for performance driven server and storage clustering applications in Enterprise Data Center and High-Performance Computing environments. With the help of these cards, clustered data bases, parallelized applications and transactional services applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time. They also simplify network deployment by consolidating clustering, communications, storage, and management I/O and by providing enhanced performance in virtualized server environments. Tested and validated in Dell blade servers and supported by Dell Technical Support, these cards deliver real value.

Clustered applications running on the multi-core PowerEdge servers will benefit from the reliable transport connections and advanced multicast support offer by ConnectX. End-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) enables partitioning and guaranteed service levels.

Clustered and client/server applications achieve maximum performance over ConnectX because more CPU cycles are available to focus on critical application processing instead of networking functions. Network protocol processing and data movement overhead such as RDMA and Send/Receive semantics are completed in the adapter without CPU intervention. Applications utilizing TCP/UDP/IP transport can achieve industry-leading throughput when run over ConnectX and its hardware based stateless offload engines.

ConnectX support for hardware-based I/O virtualization provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines within the server. I/O virtualization with ConnectX gives data center managers better server utilization and LAN and SAN unification while reducing cost, power and cable complexity.

A unified InfiniBand cluster for computing and storage achieves significant cost-performance advantages over multi-fabric networks. Standard block and file access protocols leveraging InfiniBand RDMA result in high-performance storage access. Fibre Channel frame encapsulation over InfiniBand (FCoIB) hardware offloads enable simple connectivity to Fibre Channel SANs!