Intelligent ConnectX-5 adapter cards belong to the Mellanox Smart Interconnect suite and supporting Co-Design and In-Network Compute, providing acceleration engines for maximizing High Performance, Web 2.0, Cloud, Data Analytics and Storage platforms.

This adapter supports two ports of 100Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, sub-600 nanosecond latency, and very high message rate, plus PCIe switch and NVMe over Fabric offloads, providing the highest performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding applications and markets.

ConnectX-5 enables higher HPC performance with new Message Passing Interface (MPI) offloads, such as MPI Tag Matching and MPI AlltoAll operations, advanced dynamic routing, and new capabilities to perform various data algorithms.