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CPU Offload
Adapter functionality enabling reduced CPU overhead allowing more available CPU for
computation tasks.
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Flexible match-action flow tables
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Open VSwitch (OVS) offload using ASAP
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- Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing®
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Tunneling encapsulation / decapsulation
Quality of Service (QoS)
Support for port-based Quality of Service enabling various application requirements for
latency and SLA.
Hardware-based I/O
Virtualization
ConnectX-6 provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection
for virtual machines within the server.
Storage Acceleration
A consolidated compute and storage network achieves significant cost-performance
advantages over multi-fabric networks. Standard block and file access protocols can leverage:
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RDMA for high-performance storage access
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NVMe over Fabric offloads for target machine
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Erasure Coding
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T10-DIF Signature Handover
SR-IOV
ConnectX-6 SR-IOV technology provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed
isolation and protection for virtual machines (VM) within the server.
High-Performance
Accelerations
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Tag Matching and Rendezvous Offloads
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Adaptive Routing on Reliable Transport
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Burst Buffer Offloads for Background Checkpointing
1.3.1
Operating Systems/Distributions
ConnectX-6 Socket Direct cards 2x PCIe x16 (OPNs 1GK7G and CY7GD) are not
supported in Windows and WinOF-2.
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RHEL/CentOS
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Windows
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SLES
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OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
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OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF-2)
1.3.2
Connectivity
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Interoperable with 1/10/25/40/50/100/200 Gb/s Ethernet switches
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Passive copper cable with ESD protection
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Powered connectors for optical and active cable support
1.3.3
Manageability
ConnectX-6 technology maintains support for manageability through a BMC. ConnectX-6
adapter card can be connected to a BMC using MCTP over SMBus or MCTP over PCIe
protocols as if it is a standard Mellanox adapter card.
