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Introduction
1.1
Product Overview
This is the user guide for Mellanox Technologies Virtual Protocol Interconnect® adapter
cards based on the ConnectX®-6 integrated circuit device. ConnectX-6 connectivity
provides the highest performing low latency and most flexible interconnect solution for
PCI Express Gen 3.0/4.0 servers used in enterprise datacenters and high-performance
computing environments.
ConnectX-6 VPI adapter cards provide up to two ports of 100Gb/s for InfiniBand and
Ethernet connectivity, sub-600ns latency and 215 million messages per second, enabling
the highest performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding High-
Performance Computing (HPC), storage, and datacenter applications.
ConnectX-6 is a groundbreaking addition to the Mellanox ConnectX series of industry-
leading adapter cards. In addition to all the existing innovative features of past ConnectX
versions, ConnectX-6 offers several enhancements that further improve performance and
scalability of datacenter applications.
1.2
ConnectX-6 SNAPI (Single-slot) Configuration
Mellanox Socket
Direct® technology offers improved performance to dual-socket servers by
enabling direct access from each CPU in a dual-socket server to the network through its
dedicated PCIe interface. Please note that ConnectX-6 Socket Direct cards do not support
Multi-Host functionality (i.e. connectivity to two independent
CPUs).
ConnectX-6 Socket Direct cards are available in two configurations:
Dual-slot
Configuration
(2x PCIe x16) and
SNAPI
(
Single-slot) Configuration
(2x PCIe x8).
Make sure to use a PCIe slot that can supply the required power and airflow to the
ConnectX-6 as stated in
