Dell / Mellanox CX354A 2x Port ConnectX-3 VPI 40/56GbE Dual-Port QSFP Full Profile Adapter DPN: 05V5KT,5V5KT
- Brand: Dell
- Manufacturer: Mellanox
- Part #(s):
- Same card
- 05V5KT,5V5KT (Full Height option)
- 01T7NW,1T7NW (Low Profile option)
- Mellanox Part #: MCX354A-FCBT
- Model: CX354A
- Specs:-
- ::Type: Network adapter card.
- ::Description: Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI Adapter Card
- ::Connectivity: Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI), meaning it supports both:
- InfiniBand (IB) and Ethernet
- ::InfiniBand Speed: FDR (Fourteen Data Rate) up to 56 Gb/s per port
- ::Ethernet Speed: 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) per port
- ::Ports: Dual-Port
- ::Connector: QSFP+
- ::Connectivity: Dual-port QSFP+.
- ::Interface: PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 x8
- ::Power Consumption: Typically around 12W (for the MCX354A-FCBT variant)
- Condition: New
- Warranty: 1 (one) year Tekmart Africa warranty
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The SKU:5V5KT is a Dell part number corresponding to a Dell Dual-port QSFP+ network adapter card. It is a 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) / FDR (Fourteen Data Rate) InfiniBand network adapter card.
These cards are known for providing high bandwidth and extremely low latency, making them suitable for clustering, storage, and other data-intensive applications.
Some important features they have:-
Virtual Protocol Interconnect
VPI-enabled adapters enable any standard networking, clustering, storage, and management protocol to seamlessly operate over any converged network leveraging a consolidated software stack. With auto-sense capability, each ConnectX-3 port can identify and operate on InfiniBand, Ethernet, or Data Center Bridging (DCB) fabrics.
FlexBoot™ provides additional flexibility by enabling servers to boot from remote InfiniBand or LAN storage targets. ConnectX-3 with VPI and FlexBoot simplifies I/O system design and makes it easier for IT managers to deploy infrastructure that meets the challenges of a dynamic data center.
World-Class Performance
InfiniBand —ConnectX-3 delivers low latency, high bandwidth, and computing efficiency for performance-driven server and storage clustering applications. Efficient computing is achieved by offloading from the CPU protocol processing and data movement overhead such as RDMA and Send/Receive semantics allowing more processor power for the application.
CORE-Direct™ brings the next level of performance improvement by offloading application overhead such as data broadcasting and gathering as well as global synchronization communication routines. GPU communication acceleration provides additional efficiencies by eliminating unnecessary internal data copies to significantly reduce application run time.
ConnectX-3 advanced acceleration technology enables higher cluster efficiency and large scalability to tens of thousands of nodes.
RDMA over Converged Ethernet —
ConnectX-3 utilizing IBTA RoCE technology delivers similar low-latency and high-performance over Ethernet networks. Leveraging Data Center Bridging capabilities, RoCE provides efficient low latency RDMA services over Layer 2 Ethernet.
With link-level interoperability in existing Ethernet infrastructure, Network Administrators can leverage existing data center fabric management solutions.
Sockets Acceleration — Applications utilizing
TCP/UDP/IP transport can achieve industry leading throughput over InfiniBand or 10 or 40GbE. The hardware-based stateless offload engines in ConnectX-3 reduce the CPU overhead of IP packet transport. Sockets acceleration software further increases performance for latency sensitive applications.
The most common full part number is MCX354A-FCBT, which indicates a dual-port, full-height bracket card supporting FDR InfiniBand and 40GbE.
This same card but having the LP (Low Profile) bracket has the Dell part number: 01T7NW,1T7NW
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