Nvidia Mellanox ConnectX-6 MCX654106A-ECAT - Features and Capabilities; Key Performance Features

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Features and Benefits
PCI
Express
(PCIe)
Uses the following PCIe interfaces:
PCIe x8/x16 configurations:
PCIe Gen 3.0 (8GT/s) and Gen 4.0 (16GT/s) through an x8/x16 edge connector.
2x PCIe x16 configurations:
PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0 SERDES @ 8.0/16.0 GT/s through Edge Connector
PCIe Gen 3.0 SERDES @ 8.0GT/s through PCIe Auxiliary Connection Card
200Gb/s
Virtual
Protocol
Interconne
ct (VPI)
Adapter
ConnectX-6 offers the highest throughput VPI adapter, supporting HDR 200b/s InfiniBand and
200Gb/s Ethernet and enabling any standard networking, clustering, or storage to operate
seamlessly over any converged network leveraging a consolidated software stack.
InfiniBand
Architectu
re
Specificati
on v1.3
compliant
ConnectX-6 delivers low latency, high bandwidth, and computing efficiency for performance-driven
server and storage clustering applications. ConnectX-6 is InfiniBand Architecture Specification
v1.3 compliant.
Up to 200
Gigabit
Ethernet
Mellanox adapters comply with the following IEEE 802.3 standards:
200GbE / 100GbE / 50GbE / 40GbE / 25GbE / 10GbE / 1GbE
- IEEE 802.3bj, 802.3bm 100 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3by, Ethernet Consortium25, 50 Gigabit Ethernet, supporting all FEC modes
- IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3ap based auto-negotiation and KR startup
- IEEE 802.3ad, 802.1AX Link Aggregation
- IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
- IEEE 802.1Qau (QCN)
- Congestion Notification
- IEEE 802.1Qaz (ETS)
- IEEE 802.1Qbb (PFC)
- IEEE 802.1Qbg
- IEEE 1588v2
- Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)
InfiniBand
HDR100
A standard InfiniBand data rate, where each lane of a 2X port runs a bit rate of 53.125Gb/s with a
64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effective bandwidth of 100Gb/s.
InfiniBand
HDR
A standard InfiniBand data rate, where each lane of a 4X port runs a bit rate of 53.125Gb/s with a
64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effective bandwidth of 200Gb/s.
Memory
Componen
ts
SPI Quad - includes 256Mbit SPI Quad Flash device (MX25L25645GXDI-08G device by
Macronix)
FRU EEPROM - Stores the parameters and personality of the card. The EEPROM capacity is
128Kbit. FRU I2C address is (0x50) and is accessible through the PCIe SMBus.
Make sure to use a PCIe slot that is capable of supplying the required power and airflow to the
ConnectX-6 cards as stated in Specifications.
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