- For InfiniBand, 10 Gigabit Ethernet or Data Center Bridging fabrics
- World-class cluster performance
- High-performance networking and storage access
- Guaranteed bandwidth and low-latency services
- Reliable transport
- I/O consolidation
- Virtualization acceleration
- Scales to tens-of-thousands of nodes
- Virtual Protocol Interconnect
- PCI Express 2.0 (up to 5GT/s)
- CPU offload of transport operations
- CORE-Direct application offload
- GPU communication acceleration
- End-to-end QoS and congestion control
- Hardware-based I/O virtualization
- Fiber Channel encapsulation (FCoIB or FCoE)
- RoHS-R6
ConnectX-2 adapter cards with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) supporting InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity provide high performing and most flexible interconnect solution for enterprise data centers, high-performance computing, and embedded environments. Clustered data bases, parallel processing, 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-2 with VPI also simplifies network deployment by consolidating cables and enhancing performance in virtualized server environments.