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Feature
Description
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 RDMA for high-
performance storage access.
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NVMe over Fabric offloads for the target machine
SR-IOV
ConnectX-4 Lx SR-IOV technology provides dedicated adapter
resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual
machines (VM) within the server.
NC-SI
The adapter supports a Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-
SI), MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe - Baseboard Management
Controller interface.
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
Operating Systems/Distributions
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RHEL/CentOS
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Windows
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FreeBSD
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VMware
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OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
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OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF-2)
