Mellanox ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Interconnect IB Adapter Delivers Performance

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that its ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s IB adapter attained record performance results.

Achieving IB throughput of 100Gb/s, bi-directional throughput of 195Gb/s, applications latency level of 610 nanoseconds and message rate of 149.5 million messages per second, ConnectX-4 is an adapter for the HPC, Web 2.0, cloud, machine learning, storage and enterprise applications.

“Interconnect performance capabilities are critical to data- and compute-intensive applications which require ultra-low latency and a high rate of message communication in order to deliver faster results,” said Gilad Shainer, VP, marketing, Mellanox. “At 100Gb/s, for example, you can transmit a whole Blu-ray disc of data in twos. ConnectX-4 opens new capabilities for high-performance, data analytics, machine learning and storage applications. With the new records of interconnect performance, ConnectX-4 adapters provide the means to increase data center ROI while reducing IT costs.“

ConnectX-4 has already been selected to power CORAL (Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore National Labs) to help ease the Department of Energy’s mission-critical applications.

ConnectX-4 adapters are sampling with select customers. It offers a complete end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s IB solution, including the EDR 100Gb/s Switch-IB IB switch and LinkX 100Gb/s copperand fiber cables.