Specifications

• Mfr Part Number: MCX354A-QCBT
• Features:
  • Virtual Protocol Interconnect
    
  • 1 s MPI ping latency
  • Dual-Port
  • CPU offload of transport operations
  • Application offload
  • GPU communication acceleration
  • End-to-end QoS and congestion control
  • Hardware-based I/O virtualization
  • Fibre Channel encapsulation (FCoiB or FCoE)
  • Eternet Encapsulation (EoIB)
• VPI Ports: Dual QDR 40Gb/s or 10GbE
• Connectors: QSFP
• InfiniBand:
  • IBTA Specification 1.2.1 Compliant
  • Hardware-based congestion control
  • 16 million I/O channels
  • 256 to 4Kbyte MTU, 1Gbyte messages
• Enhanced InfiniBand:
  • Hardware-based reliable transport
  • Collective operations offloads
  • GPU communication acceleration
  • Hardware-based reliable multicast
  • Extended Reliable Connected transport
  • Enhanced Atomic operations
• Ethernet:
  • IEEE Std 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • IEEE Std 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
  • IEEE Std 802.3ad Link Aggregation and Failover
  • IEEE Std 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
  • IEEE Std 802.1Q, .1p VLAN tags and priority
  • IEEE Std 802.1Qau Congestion Notification
  • IEEE P802.1Qaz D0.2 ETS
  • IEEE P802.1Qbb D1.0 Priority-based Flow Control
  • Jumbo frame support (9600B)
• Hardware-Based I/O Virtualization:
  • Single Root IOV
  • Address translation and protection
  • Dedicated adapter resources
  • Multiple queues per virtual machine
  • Enhanced QoS for vNICs
  • VMware NetQueue support
• Additional CPU Offloads:
  • RDMA over Converged Ethernet
  • TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
  • Intelligent interrupt coalescence
• Flexboot Technology:
  • Remote boot over InfiniBand
  • Remote boot over Ethernet
  • Remote boot over iSCSI
• Protocol Support:
  • Open MPI, OSU MVAPICH, Intel MPI, MS
  • MPI, Platform MPI
  • TCP/UDP, EoIB, IPoIB, RDS
  • SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA
  • uDAPL
• PCI Express Interface:
  • PCIe Base 3.0 compliant, 1.1 and 2.0 compatible
  • 2.5, 5.0, or 8.0GT/s link rate x8
  • Auto-negotiates to x8, x4, x2, or x1
  • Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms
• Connectivity:
  • Interoperable with InfiniBand or 10/40 Ethernet switches. Interoperable with 56GbE Mellanox Switches
  • Passive copper cable with ESD protection
  • Powered connectors for optical and active cable support
  • QSFP to SFP+ connectivity through QSA module
• Operating System:
  • Citrix XenServer 6.1
  • Novell SLES, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012
  • OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x
• Dimensions: 14.2 x 6.9 cm (w/o Brackets)
• Image is for Representation Only