Overview
Rev 1.6
Mellanox Technologies
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1 Overview
This document is a User Manual for Mellanox Technologies VPI adapter cards based on the Con-
nectX®-2 VPI integrated circuit device. The cards described in this manual have the following
main features:
• Virtual Protocol Interconnect
• InfiniBand Architecture Specification v1.2.1 compliant
• Compliant with QSFP MSA spec Rev. 1.0
• PCI Express 2.0 (1.1 compatible) through an x8 edge connector up to 5GT/s
• Single- and Dual-Port options available
• Compatible with copper cables and optical cables with the use of QSFP connectors. Support for
SFP+ cables is available through QSA (Quad to Serial) adapters.
• CPU offload of transport operations
• CORE-Direct® application offload
• GPU-Direct application offload
• RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE)
• End-to-end QoS and congestion control
• Hardware-based I/O virtualization
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
• Fibre Channel encapsulation (FCoIB or FCoE)
•RoHS-R6
• Two bracket heights: short and tall
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