- General Information
- Manufacturer
- Lenovo Group Limited
- Manufacturer Website Address
- http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/
- Brand Name
- Lenovo
- Product Line
- ConnectX-6
- Packaged Quantity
- 1
- Product Type
- Infiniband Host Bus Adapter
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 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
- 2.0
- 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)