User`s guide

Chapter 1: Overview
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Chapter 1
Overview
1-1 Overview
Congratulations on purchasing your add-on card from an acknowledged leader in
the industry. Supermicro products are designed with the utmost attention to detail
to provide you with the highest standards in quality and performance. For product
support and updates, please refer to our website at http://www.supermicro.com/
products/nfo/networking.cfm#adapter.
1-2 Key Features
The key features of this add-on card include the following:
• Single QSFP (Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable) Connector
• MicroLP Form Factor
• PCI Express 3.0 (up to 8GT/s)
• Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI)
• Up to 56Gbps InniBand or 40Gbps Ethernet
• CPU ofoad of transport operations
• Application ofoad
• GPU communication acceleration
• End-to-end QoS and congestion control
• Hardware-based I/O virtualization
• Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)
• RoHS compliant 6/6
1-3 Specications
General
•Mellanox
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ConnectX-3 FDR controller
•Compact size microLP form factor
•Single QSFP port and dual USB 2.0 ports
•PCI-E 3.0 x8 (8GT/s) interface