BenefitsNVIDIA LinkX Ethernet 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. NVIDIA offers one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of 40Gb/s, 56Gb/s and 100Gb/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 Ethernet standards, NVIDIA tests every product in an end-to-end environment ensuring a Bit Error Rate of less than 1E-15.
* High performance boards for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency and high message rate
* Industry leading throughput and latency for Web 2.0, Cloud and Big Data applications
* Smart interconnect for x86, Power, ARM, and GPU-based compute and storage platforms
* Cutting-edge performance in virtualized overlay networks
* Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity
* Virtualization acceleration
* Power efficiency
| Products Status | Stock |
| Product Name | Mellanox MCX512A-ACAT |
| Model Number | Mellanox MCX512A-ACAT |
| Place of Origin | China |
| Lifecycle | Active |
| Distrib. Inventory | Yes |
| Ordering Part # | Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ethernet Adapter Card |
Telecommunications service providers are moving towards
disaggregation, server virtualization, and orchestration as key tenets to
modernize their networks. Likewise, they’re also moving towards Network
Function Virtualization (NFV), which enables the rapid deployment of new
network services. With this move, proprietary dedicated hardware and
software, which tend to be static and difficult to scale, are being replaced
with virtual machines running on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers.
For telecom service providers, choosing the right networking hardware is
critical to achieving a cloud-native NFV solution that is agile, reliable, fast
and efficient.
Telco service providers typically leverage virtualization and
cloud technologies to better achieve agile service delivery and efficient
scalability; these technologies require an advanced network infrastructure
to support higher rates of packet processing. However, the resultant
east-west traffic causes numerous interrupts as I/O traverses from kernel
to user space, eats up CPU cycles and decreases packet performance.
Particularly sensitive to delays are voice and video applications which
often require less than 100ms of latency.
ConnectX-5 adapter cards drive extremely high packet rates, increased
throughput and drive higher network efficiency through the following
technologies; Open vSwitch Offloads (OvS), OvS over DPDK or ASAP²,
Network Overlay Virtualization, SR-IOV, and RDMA. This allows for secure
data delivery through higher-performance offloads, reducing CPU resource
utlization, and boosting data center infrastructure efficiency. The result is
a much more responsive and agile network capable of rapidly deploying
network services.
