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Lenovo ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR100/100GbE QSFP56 2-port PCIe VPI Adapter

Part #: 1-2158760

Lenovo ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR100/100GbE QSFP56 2-port PCIe VPI Adapter

Part #: 1-2158760 MFG Part #: 4C57A14178 UPC #: 889488491384
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About the Lenovo ConnectX-6

The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR100/100GbE VPI Adapters offer 100 Gb/s Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity for high-performance connectivity when running HPC, cloud, storage and machine learning applications.The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR100/100GbE VPI Adapters offer 100 Gb/s Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity for high-performance connectivity when running HPC, cloud, storage and machine learning applications.

Technical Specifications of the Lenovo ConnectX-6

General Information


Manufacturer Lenovo Group Limited
Manufacturer Part Number 4C57A14178
Manufacturer Website Address http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/
Brand Name Lenovo
Product Line ConnectX-6
Product Name ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR100/100GbE QSFP56 2-port PCIe VPI Adapter
Packaged Quantity 1
Product Type Infiniband Host Bus Adapter

Technical Information


Total Number of Infiniband Ports 2
Host Interface PCI Express 4.0 x16

Media & Performance


Data Transfer Rate 100 Gbit/s

I/O Expansions


Total Number of Expansion Slots 2
Expansion Slot Type QSFP56

Physical Characteristics


Form Factor Plug-in Card
Card Height Full-height/Low-profile

Miscellaneous


Additional Information

PCI Express Interface

  • PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface (also supports a PCIe 3.0 host interface)
  • Support for PCIe x1, x2, x4, x8, and x16 configurations
  • PCIe Atomic
  • TLP (Transaction Layer Packet) Processing Hints (TPH)
  • PCIe switch Downstream Port Containment (DPC) enablement for PCIe hot-plug
  • Advanced Error Reporting (AER)
  • Access Control Service (ACS) for peer-to-peer secure communication
  • Process Address Space ID (PASID) Address Translation Services (ATS)
  • IBM CAPIv2 (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)
  • Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms

Connectivity

  • One or two QSFP56 ports
  • Supports passive copper cables with ESD protection
  • Powered connectors for optical and active cable support

InfiniBand

  • Supports interoperability with InfiniBand switches (up to HDR100)
  • When used in a PCIe 3.0 slot, total connectivity is up to 100 Gb/s:
    • One port adapter supports a single 100 Gb/s link
    • Two-port adapter supports two connections of 50 Gb/s each or one 100 Gb/s active link and the other a standby link
  • When used in a PCIe 4.0 slot, total connectivity is up to 200 Gb/s:
    • One port adapter supports a single 100 Gb/s link
    • Two-port adapter supports two connections of 100 Gb/s each
  • HDR100 / EDR / FDR / QDR / DDR / SDR
  • IBTA Specification 1.3 compliant
  • RDMA, Send/Receive semantics
  • Hardware-based congestion control
  • Atomic operations
  • 16 million I/O channels
  • 256 to 4Kbyte MTU, 2Gbyte messages
  • 8 virtual lanes + VL15

Ethernet (requires firmware 20.28.1002 or later)

  • Support interoperability with Ethernet switches (up to 100GbE, as 2 lanes of 50Gb/s data rate)
  • When used in the PCIe 3.0 slot, total connectivity is 100 Gb/s:
    • One port adapter supports a single 100 Gb/s link
    • Two-port adapter supports two connections of 50 Gb/s each or one 100 Gb/s active link and the other a standby link
  • When used in the PCIe 4.0 slot, total connectivity is 200 Gb/s:
    • One port adapter supports a single 100 Gb/s link
    • Two-port adapter supports two connections of 100 Gb/s each
  • Supports 100GbE / 50GbE / 40GbE / 25GbE / 10GbE / 1GbE
  • Ethernet speed must be set; auto-negotiation is currently not supported (planned for a later firmware update)
  • 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
  • IEEE 802.3ap based auto-negotiation and KR startup (planned for a later firmware update)
  • 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
  • Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)

Enhanced Features

  • Hardware-based reliable transport
  • Collective operations offloads
  • Vector collective operations offloads
  • PeerDirect RDMA (GPUDirect) communication acceleration
  • 64/66 encoding
  • Enhanced Atomic operations
  • Advanced memory mapping support, allowing user mode registration and remapping of memory (UMR)
  • Extended Reliable Connected transport (XRC)
  • Dynamically Connected transport (DCT)
  • On demand paging (ODP)
Compatibility

ThinkSystem Servers:

  • SR630 V2 (7Z70 / 7Z71)
  • SR650 V2 (7Z72 / 7Z73)
  • SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23)
  • SR635 (7Y98 / 7Y99)
  • SR655 (7Y00 / 7Z01)
  • SR645 (7D2Y / 7D2X)
  • SR665 (7D2W / 7D2V)
  • SR850 V2 (7D31 / 7D32)
  • SR860 V2 (7Z59 / 7Z60)
  • SR950 (7X11 / 7X12)
  • SR630 (7X01 / 7X02)
  • SR650 (7X05 / 7X06)
  • SR670 (7Y36 / 7Y37)
  • SR850 (7X18 / 7X19)
  • SR850P (7D2F / 2D2G)
  • SR860 (7X69 / 7X70)

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