Mellanox LinkX
Interconnect
Solutions
Mellanox LinkX InfiniBand cables and transceivers are designed to maximize the
performance of High-Performance Computing networks, requiring high-bandwidth, low-
latency connections between compute nodes and switch nodes. Mellanox offers one of
industry’s broadest portfolio of QDR/FDR10 (40Gb/s), FDR (56Gb/s), EDR/HDR100
(100Gb/s) and HDR (200Gb/s) cables, including Direct Attach Copper cables (DACs),
copper splitter cables, Active Optical Cables (AOCs) and transceivers in a wide range of
lengths from 0.5m to 10km. In addition to meeting IBTA standards,Mellanox tests every
product in an end-to-end environment ensuring a Bit Error Rate of less than 1E-15.Read
more at https://www.mellanox.com/products/interconnect/infiniband-overview.php
Document Conventions
When discussing memory sizes, MB and MBytes are used in this document to mean size in mega
Bytes. The use of Mb or Mbits (small b) indicates size in mega bits.IB is used in this document to mean
InfiniBand. In this document PCIe is used to mean PCI Express.
Revision History
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