Mellanox Infiniband Solutions
Infiniband Adaptors
Mellanox InfiniBand Host Channel Adapters (HCA) provide the highest performing interconnect solution for Deep Learning & AI, High-Performance Computing, Enterprise Datacentres, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, and embedded environments. Clustered databases, parallelized applications, transactional services and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation.
ConnectX-6 Adapters
ConnectX-6 is the world’s first 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand and Ethernet network adapter card, offering world-leading performance, smart offloads and In-Network Computing. ConnectX-6 with VPI provides two ports of 200Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity supporting HDR, HDR100, EDR, FDR, QDR, DDR and SDR InfiniBand speeds, as well as 200, 100, 50, 40, 25, and 10Gb/s Ethernet speeds. Supports sub-600 nanosecond latency, an extremely high message rate, plus PCIe switch and NVMe over Fabric offloads, ConnectX-6 delivers the highest performance, secure and extremely flexible solution for the most demanding applications and markets. Includes Multi-Host support for up to 8 independent hosts and block-level encryption as a crucial innovation to network security, in addition to all of the features included in the earlier ConnectX adapters.
ConnectX-5 Adapters
Intelligent ConnectX-5 adapter cards support Co-Design and In-Network computing, while introducing acceleration engines for maximizing HPC, data analytics and storage platforms. Supporting two ports of EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand and 100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity, sub-600 nanosecond latency, a very high message rate, plus PCIe switch and NVMe over Fabric offloads. Includes new Message Passing Interface (MPI) offloads, e.g., MPI Tag Matching and MPI AlltoAll operations, advanced dynamic routing, and new data algorithms capabilities. Offers advanced application offloads supporting 100Gb/s for servers without x16 PCIe slots.
Infiniband Switches
Mellanox’s family of InfiniBand switches delivers the highest performance and port density with a complete chassis and fabric management solution to enable compute clusters and converged datacentres to operate at any scale while reducing operational costs and infrastructure complexity.
The Mellanox family of switches includes a broad portfolio of edge and modular switches that range from 8 to 800 ports, and support 40-200Gb/s per port with the lowest latency. Mellanox InfiniBand Software Defined Networking (SDN) switches ensure separation between control and data planes. InfiniBand centralized management and programmability of the network by external applications enables cost effective, simple and flat interconnect infrastructure.
Mellanox managed InfiniBand switches come with an onboard subnet manager, enabling simple out-of-the-box fabric bring up for up to 2K nodes. MLNX-OS (SX6000, SB7000 and QM8000 families) chassis management provides administrative tools to manage the firmware, power supplies, fans, ports, and other interfaces. All Mellanox switches can also be coupled with Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) software for managing scale-out InfiniBand computing environments. UFM boosts application performance and ensures that the fabric is up and running at all times. MLNX-OS provides a license activated embedded diagnostic tool, Fabric Inspector, to check node-to-node, node-to-switch connectivity and ensure the fabric health.
Edge Switch (externally managed)
| General Specs | SX6005 | SX6015 | SX6025 | SB7790 / SB7890 | QM8790 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ports | 12 | 18 | 36 | 36 | 40 |
| Height | 1U | 1U | 1U | 1U | 1U |
| Switch Capacity | 1.3Tb/s | 2.01Tb/s | 4.032Tb/s | 7.2Tb/s | 16Tb/s |
| Link Speed | 56Gb/s | 56Gb/s | 56Gb/s | 100Gb/s | 200Gb/s |
| Interface Type | QSFP+ | QSFP+ | QSFP+ | QSFP28 | QSFP28 |
| PSU Redundancy | No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Fan Redundancy | No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Integrated Gateway | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Edge Switch (managed)
| General Specs | SX6012 | SX6018 | SX6036 | SB7700 / SB7800 | QM8700 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ports | 12 | 18 | 36 | 36 | 40 |
| Height | 1U | 1U | 1U | 1U | 1U |
| Switch Capacity | 1.3Tb/s | 2.01Tb/s | 4.032Tb/s | 7.2Tb/s | 16Tb/s |
| Link Speed | 56Gb/s | 56Gb/s | 56Gb/s | 100Gb/s | 200Gb/s |
| Interface Type | QSFP+ | QSFP+ | QSFP+ | QSFP28 | QSFP28 |
| Management | 648 nodes | 648 nodes | 648 nodes | 2048 nodes | 2048 nodes |
| Management Ports | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| PSU Redundancy | Optional | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Fan Redundancy | No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Integrated Gateway | Optional | Optional | Optional | -- | -- |