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Mellanox ConnectX-3 and ConnectX-3 Pro Adapters
Product Guide
High-performance computing (HPC) solutions require high bandwidth, low latency components with CPU offloads to get the highest server efficiency and application productivity. The Mellanox ConnectX-3 and ConnectX-3 Pro network adapters for System x® servers deliver the I/O performance that meets these requirements.
Mellanox's ConnectX-3 and ConnectX-3 Pro ASIC delivers low latency, high bandwidth, and computing efficiency for performance-driven server applications. Efficient computing is achieved by offloading from the CPU routine activities, which makes more processor power available for the application. Network protocol processing and data movement impacts, such as InfiniBand RDMA and Send/Receive semantics, are completed in the adapter without CPU intervention. RDMA support extends to virtual servers when SRIOV is enabled. Mellanox's ConnectX-3 advanced acceleration technology enables higher cluster efficiency and scalability of up to tens of thousands of nodes.
Figure 1. Mellanox Connect X-3 10GbE Adapter for System x (3U bracket shown)
Did you know?
Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand network server adapters provide a high-performing interconnect solution for enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud computing, and HPC environments, where low latency and interconnect efficiency is paramount. In additiona, Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) offers flexibility in InfiniBand and Ethernet port designations.
With the new ConnectX-3 Pro adapter, you can implement VXLAN and NVGRE offload engines to accelerate virtual LAN ID processing, ideal for public and private cloud configurations.
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Part number information
Table 1 shows the part numbers and feature codes for the adapters.
Table 1. Ordering part numbers and feature codes
Part number |
Feature code |
Description |
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00D9690 |
A3PM |
Mellanox ConnectX-3 |
10 GbE Adapter |
00D9550 |
A3PN |
Mellanox ConnectX-3 |
40GbE / FDR IB VPI Adapter |
00FP650 |
A5RK |
Mellanox ConnectX-3 |
Pro ML2 2x40GbE/FDR VPI Adapter |
7ZT7A00501 |
AUKR |
ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro ML2 FDR 2-Port QSFP VPI Adapter |
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The part numbers include the following:
One adapter with a full-height (3U) bracket attached
Additional low-profile (2U) bracket included in the box
Documentation
Figure 2 shows the Mellanox ConnectX-3 40GbE / FDR IB VPI Adapter (the shipping adapter includes a heatsink over the ASIC but the figure does not show this heatsink)
Figure 2. Mellanox ConnectX-3 40GbE / FDR IB VPI Adapter for System x with 3U bracket (attached heatsink removed)
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Supported cables and transceivers
The 10GbE Adapter (00D9690) supports the direct-attach copper (DAC) twin-ax cables, transceivers, and optical cables that are listed in the following table.
Table 2. Supported transceivers and DAC cables - 10GbE adapter
Part number |
Feature code |
Description |
Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables |
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00D6288 |
A3RG |
.5 m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
90Y9427 |
A1PH |
1 m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
90Y9430 |
A1PJ |
3 m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
90Y9433 |
A1PK |
5 m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
00D6151 |
A3RH |
7 m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
95Y0323 |
A25A |
1M Active DAC SFP+ Cable |
95Y0326 |
A25B |
3m Active DAC SFP+ Cable |
95Y0329 |
A25C |
5m Active DAC SFP+ Cable |
SFP+ Transceivers |
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46C3447 |
5053 |
SFP+ SR Transceiver |
49Y4216 |
0069 |
Brocade 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver |
49Y4218 |
0064 |
QLogic 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver |
Optical Cables |
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00MN499 |
ASR5 |
Lenovo 0.5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
00MN502 |
ASR6 |
Lenovo 1m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
00MN505 |
ASR7 |
Lenovo 3m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
00MN508 |
ASR8 |
Lenovo 5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
00MN511 |
ASR9 |
Lenovo 10m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
00MN514 |
ASRA |
Lenovo 15m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
00MN517 |
ASRB |
Lenovo 25m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
00MN520 |
ASRC |
Lenovo 30m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
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The FDR adapters (00D9550, 00FP650 and 7ZT7A00501) support the direct-attach copper (DAC) twin-ax cables, transceivers, and optical cables that are listed in the following table.
Table 3. Supported transceivers and DAC cables - 40GbE adapters
Part number |
Feature code |
Description |
Direct attach copper (DAC) cables - InfiniBand |
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44T1364 |
ARZA |
0.5m Mellanox QSFP Passive DAC Cable |
00KF002 |
ARZB |
0.75m Mellanox QSFP Passive DAC Cable |
00KF003 |
ARZC |
1m Mellanox QSFP Passive DAC Cable |
00KF004 |
ARZD |
1.25m Mellanox QSFP Passive DAC Cable |
00KF005 |
ARZE |
1.5m Mellanox QSFP Passive DAC Cable |
00KF006 |
ARZF |
3m Mellanox QSFP Passive DAC Cable |
Optical cables - InfiniBand |
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00KF007 |
ARYC |
3m Mellanox Active IB FDR Optical Fiber Cable |
00KF008 |
ARYD |
5m Mellanox Active IB FDR Optical Fiber Cable |
00KF009 |
ARYE |
10m Mellanox Active IB FDR Optical Fiber Cable |
00KF010 |
ARYF |
15m Mellanox Active IB FDR Optical Fiber Cable |
00KF011 |
ARYG |
20m Mellanox Active IB FDR Optical Fiber Cable |
00KF012 |
ARYH |
30m Mellanox Active IB FDR Optical Fiber Cable |
40Gb Ethernet (QSFP) to 10Gb Ethernet (SFP+) Conversion |
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00KF013 |
ARZG |
3m Mellanox QSFP Passive DAC Hybrid Cable |
00D9676 |
ARZH |
Mellanox QSFP to SFP+ adapter |
40Gb Ethernet (QSFP) - 40GbE copper uses the QSFP+ to QSFP+ cables directly |
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49Y7890 |
A1DP |
1 m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Cable |
49Y7891 |
A1DQ |
3 m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Cable |
00D5810 |
A2X8 |
5m QSFP-to-QSFP cable |
00D5813 |
A2X9 |
7m QSFP-to-QSFP cable |
40Gb Ethernet (QSFP) - 40GbE optical uses QSFP+ transceiver with MTP optical cables |
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49Y7884 |
A1DR |
QSFP+ 40GBASE-SR4 Transceiver |
00VX003 |
AT2U |
Lenovo 10m QSFP+ MTP-MTP OM3 MMF Cable |
00VX005 |
AT2V |
Lenovo 30m QSFP+ MTP-MTP OM3 MMF Cable |
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The following figure shows the Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro ML2 2x40GbE/FDR VPI Adapter.
Figure 3. Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro ML2 2x40GbE/FDR VPI Adapter
Features
The Mellanox Connect X-3 10GbE Adapter has the following features:
Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
Low-profile form factor adapter with 2U bracket (3U bracket available for CTO orders) PCI Express 3.0 x8 host-interface (PCIe 2.0 and 1.1 compatible)
SR-IOV support; 16 virtual functions supported by KVM and Hyper-V (OS dependant) up to a maximum of 127 virtual functions supported by the adapter
Enables Low Latency RDMA over Ethernet (supported with both non-virtualized and SR-IOV enabled virtualized servers) -- latency as low as 1 µs
TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload in hardware Traffic steering across multiple cores Intelligent interrupt coalescence
Industry-leading throughput and latency performance Software compatible with standard TCP/UDP/IP stacks Microsoft VMQ / VMware NetQueue support
Legacy and UEFI PXE network boot support
Supports iSCSI as a software iSCSI initiator in NIC mode with NIC driver
The Mellanox ConnectX-3 40GbE / FDR IB VPI Adapter has the following features:
Two QSFP ports supporting FDR-14 InfiniBand or 40 Gb Ethernet
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