Introduction

World's first 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand and Ethernet network adapter card, offering industry-leading performance, smart offloads and In-Network Computing, leading to the highest return on investment for High-Performance Computing, Cloud, Web 2.0, Storage and Machine Learning applications.

ConnectX-Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) is a groundbreaking addition to the Mellanox ConnectX series of industry-leading adapter cards. Providing two ports of 200Gb/s for InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, sub-600ns latency and 215 million messages per second, ConnectX-6 VPI enables the highest performance and most flexible solution aimed at meeting the continually growing demands of data center applications.

In addition to all the existing innovative features of past versions, ConnectX-6 offers a number of enhancements to further improve performance and scalability.

ConnectX-6 VPI supports HDR, HDR100, EDR, FDR, QDR, DDR and SDR InfiniBand speeds as well as 200, 100, 50, 40, 25, and 10Gb/s Ethernet speeds.

Ports & interfaces

Connectivity technology

Wired

Host interface

PCI Express

Interface

Ethernet / Fiber

Fiber ports quantity

1

Fiber optic connector

QSFP56

PCI version

3.0

Network

Maximum data transfer rate

200000 Mbit/s

Networking standards

IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1Qau, IEEE 802.1Qaz, IEEE 802.1Qbb, IEEE 802.1Qbg, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3ap, IEEE 802.3az, IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3bm

Ethernet LAN

Y

Ethernet interface type

10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

Ethernet LAN data rates

10000,25000,40000,50000,100000 Mbit/s

Design

Component for

Server

Product colour

Multicolour

Internal

Y

Sustainability

Sustainability certificates

RoHS