NVIDIA ConnectX SmartNICs

Designed to Address Modern Data Center Challenges

Performance and Versatility to Improve Data Center Efficiency and Scale

NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX® SmartNICs utilize stateless offload engines, overlay networks, and native hardware support for RoCE and GPUDirect™ technologies to maximize application performance and data center efficiency. Developers can use ConnectX custom packet processing technologies to accelerate server-based networking functions and offload datapath processing for compute-intensive workloads including network virtualization, security, and storage functionalities.

Accelerate Packet Processing and Latency-Sensitive Workloads

Advanced accelerators and network offloads can be implemented on the ConnectX SmartNIC to free expensive CPU cycles for user application

ASAP² Virtual Switching

NVIDIA Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing (ASAP²®) technology is designed to offload vSwitch/vRouter tasks by handling the dataplane processes in the NIC hardware. As a result, significantly higher performance is achievable without the associated CPU load.

Block-Level Encryption

The innovative security hardware engines of the ConnectX offload IPsec, TLS and offer IEEE AES-XTS inline encryption/decryption services to reduce latency and save on CPU utilization. This protection enables secure network connectivity in modern data-center environments.

Socket Direct™

The NVIDIA Socket Direct® technology enables direct PCIe access to multiple CPU sockets, eliminating network traffic having to traverse the inter-process bus and optimizing overall system performance.

GPUDirect

GPUDirect® technology enables RDMA for all CPU/GPU pairs by ensuring that GPUs are linked to the CPUs closest to the adapter card. This provides a significant decrease in GPU-GPU communication latency and completely offloads the CPU from GPU-GPU communication.

Accelerate The Delivery of New Services and Capabilities

ConnectX-6 200GbE Adapters

Enable New Workloads While Improving Efficiency

ConnectX-6 is the world's first 200Gb/s SmartNIC Ethernet adapter, offering world-leading performance, smart offloads and In-Network Computing, leading to the highest return on investment for Cloud, Web 2.0, Big Data, Storage and Machine Learning applications.

ConnectX-6 EN provides two ports of 200Gb/s for Ethernet connectivity and 215 million messages per second, enabling the highest performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding data center applications.

ConnectX-5 100GbE Adapters

Scale to Meet the Demands of Your Network

Intelligent ConnectX-5 SmartNIC Ethernet adapters offer new acceleration engines that optimize performance of Web 2.0, Cloud, Data Analytics, high-performance and storage platforms.

ConnectX-5 supports two ports of 100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity, very high message rate, plus PCIe switch and NVMe over Fabric offloads, providing high performance and cost-effective solutions for a wide range of applications and markets.

Latest Product News

ConnectX Cloud-Ready OpenNFV Solution Sets DPDK Performance Record

HPE and Mellanox recently published a Solution Brief highlighting their cloud-ready OpenNFV (Network Functions Virtualization) solution which demonstrates record DPDK performance and OVS acceleration using Mellanox ASAP².

Accelerate Apache Spark Performance with RDMA and RoCE Technologies

Spark over RDMA has shown substantial improvements in block transfer times for both latency and total transfer time, memory consumption and CPU utilization, compared to standard Spark TCP implementations.

Designing an Efficient Scale-Out Deep Learning Cloud

The basic challenge in Deep Learning is that just combining a whole bunch of compute nodes into a large cluster – and making them work together seamlessly – is not simple. In fact, if it is not done properly, the performance could become worse as you increase the number of GPUs, and the cost could become unattractive.