NVIDIA ConnectX-3 based NIC PCIe 3.0 x8 Dual Port  40GbE Open QSFP+ FDR IFB

PCIe x8 ConnectX-3 Pro FDR InfiniBand Dual-Port 40/56GbE FDR InfiniBand Adapter Card with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) supports InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity with a hardware offload engine to the overlay network ("tunnelling"). This is useful in public and private cloud clustered databases, parallel processing, transactional services and high performance embedded I/O applications.

Embedded I/O applications will realize significant performance improvements, resulting in the most flexible interconnect solution that reduces completion time and cost per operation. ConnectX-3 Pro improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associated transport load on the CPU especially in virtualized server environments.

System Requirements

• FreeBSD, Linux, VMWare ESXi
• Win-server2008 R2/ Win-server2012 R2/ Win-server2016/Win-server2019
• Windows: 7/8/8.1/10 32/64bit
• One available PCI Express x8/x16 slot
  

Specification

• PCIe host interface specification v3.0 x8 and Complete with PCIe2.0 and 1.1
• Two 40 Gigabit QSFP+ Ethernet ports
• Compliant with QSFP+ MSA Spec Rev 1.0
• Two QSFP ports supporting FDR-14 InfiniBand or 40Gb Ethernet
• Support for InfiniBand FDR speeds of up to 56Gbps (auto-negotiation FDR-10, DDR and SDR)
• Low-profile form factor adaptor with 2u bracket
  
• Virtual protocol interconnect (VPI)
  
• InfiniBand Architecture specification v1.2.1 compliant
  
• IEEE Std. 802.3 compliant
  
• Compliant with copper cables and optical cables with the use of QSFP connectors.
  
• Support for SFP+ cables available through QSA (Quad to Serial)
  
• CORE-Direct® application off load
  
• GPUDirect application off-load
  
• RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE)
  
• End-to-End QoS and congestion control
  
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless off-load
  
• Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)
  
• SR-IOV support; 16 virtual functions supported by KVM and Hyper-V (OS dependant) up to a maximum 127 virtual functions supports by the adaptor
  
• Enables low latency RDMA over 40G Ethernet (supported with both non-virtualized and SR-IOV enable virtualized servers) - latency as low as 1us
  
• Traffic steering across multiple cores
  
• Microsoft VMQ/VMware Net Queue support
  
• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
  
• Legacy and UEFI PXE network boot support
  
• Supports iSCSI as a software iSCSI initiator in NIC mode with NIC driver   
  
• Supports Operation Systems: FreeBSD, Linux5.x and above, VMware, Windows server 2008/2012/2016/2019, win7/win8/win8.1/win10 32 or 64bit