Dell Mellannox CX516A Connectx-5 100Gb/s Low Profile P/N: 9FTMY, 09FTMY

PCI Express Interface
– PCIe Gen 4.0
– PCIe Gen 3.0, 1.1 and 2.0 compatible
– 2.5, 5.0, 8.0, 16.0 GT/s link rate
– Auto-negotiates to x16, x8, x4, x2, or x1 lane(s)
– PCIe Atomic
– TLP (Transaction Layer Packet) Processing Hints (TPH)
– Embedded PCIe Switch: Up to 8 bifurcations
– PCIe switch Downstream Port Containment (DPC) enablement for PCIe hot-plug
– Access Control Service (ACS) for peer-to-peer secure communication
– Advance Error Reporting (AER)
– Process Address Space ID (PASID) Address Translation Services (ATS)
– IBM CAPI v2 support (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)
– Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms

Operating Systems/Distributions*
– RHEL/CentOS
– Windows
– FreeBSD
– VMware
– OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
– OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF-2)

Connectivity
– Interoperability with Ethernet switches (up to 100GbE)
– Passive copper cable with ESD protection
– Powered connectors for optical and active cable support

Ethernet
– Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)

Enhanced Features
– Hardware-based reliable transport
– Collective operations offloads
– Vector collective operations offloads
– Mellanox PeerDirect® RDMA (aka GPUDirect®) communication acceleration
– 64/66 encoding
– Extended Reliable Connected transport (XRC)
– Dynamically Connected Transport (DCT)
– Enhanced Atomic operations
– Advanced memory mapping support, allowing user mode registration and remapping of memory (UMR)
– On demand paging (ODP)
– MPI Tag Matching
– Rendezvous protocol offload
– Out-of-order RDMA supporting Adaptive Routing
– Burst buffer offload
– In-Network Memory registration-free RDMA memory access

CPU Offloads
– RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
– TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
– LSO, LRO, checksum offload
– RSS (also on encapsulated packet), TSS, HDS, VLAN and MPLS tag insertion/stripping, Receive flow steering
– Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) for kernel bypass applications
– Open VSwitch (OVS) offload using ASAP2
• Flexible match-action flow tables
• Tunneling encapsulation/ de-capsulation
– Intelligent interrupt coalescence
– Header rewrite supporting hardware offload of NAT router Storage Offloads
– NVMe over Fabric offloads for target machine
– T10 DIF – Signature handover operation at wire speed, for ingress and egress traffic
– Storage protocols: SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA, SMB Direct, NVMe-oF

Overlay Networks
– RoCE over Overlay Networks
– Stateless offloads for overlay network tunneling protocols
– Hardware offload of encapsulation and decapsulation of VXLAN, NVGRE, and GENEVE overlay networks

Hardware-Based I/O Virtualization
- Mellanox ASAP²
– Single Root IOV
– Address translation and protection
– VMware NetQueue support
• SR-IOV: Up to 512 Virtual Functions
• SR-IOV: Up to 8 Physical Functions per host
– Virtualization hierarchies (e.g., NPAR when enabled)
• Virtualizing Physical Functions on a physical port
• SR-IOV on every Physical Function
– Configurable and user-programmable QoS
– Guaranteed QoS for VMs

Management and Control
– NC-SI over MCTP over SMBus and NC-SI over MCTP over PCIe - Baseboard Management Controller interface
– PLDM for Monitor and Control DSP0248
– PLDM for Firmware Update DSP0267
– SDN management interface for managing the eSwitch
– I²C interface for device control and configuration
– General Purpose I/O pins
– SPI interface to Flash
– JTAG IEEE 1149.1 and IEEE 1149.6 Remote Boot
– Remote boot over Ethernet
– Remote boot over iSCSI
– Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
– Pre-execution Environment (PXE)

Standards
–IEEE 802.3cd, 50,100 and 200 Gigabit Ethernet
–IEEE 802.3bj, 802.3bm 100 Gigabit Ethernet
–IEEE 802.3by, Ethernet Consortium 25, 50 Gigabit Ethernet supporting all FEC modes
–IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
–IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
–IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (supports only “Fast-Wake” mode)
–IEEE 802.3ap based auto-negotiation and KR startup
–IEEE 802.3ad, 802.1AX Link Aggregation
–IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
–IEEE 802.1Qau (QCN) Congestion Notification
–IEEE 802.1Qaz (ETS)
–IEEE 802.1Qbb (PFC)
–IEEE 802.1Qbg
–IEEE 1588v2
–25G/50G Ethernet Consortium “Low Latency FEC” for 50/100/200GE PAM4 links
–PCI Express Gen 3.0 and 4.0