The NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 SmartNIC, offers all the existing innovative features of past versions and a number of enhancements to further improve performance and scalability by introducing other acceleration engines for maximizing Cloud, Web 2.0, Big Data, Storage and Machine Learning applications.
- 215 M messages/second
- Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic
- Enhanced vSwitch / vRouter offloads
- NVIDIA Mellanox PeerDirect communication acceleration
- NVMe over fabric (NVMf) target offloads
Cloud and Web 2.0 Environments
ConnectX-6 offers NVIDIA accelerated switching and packet processing (ASAP2) direct technology to offload the vSwitch/vRouter by handling the data plane in the NIC hardware while maintaining the control plane unmodified. As a result, significantly higher vSwitch/vRouter performance is achieved without the associated CPU load.
Block-level XTS-AES mode hardware encryption
ConnectX-6 offers a crucial innovation to network security by providing block-level encryption. Data in transit undergoes encryption and decryption as it is stored or retrieved. The encryption/decryption is offloaded by the ConnectX-6 hardware, saving latency and offloading CPU. ConnectX-6 block-level encryption offload enables protection between users sharing the same resources, as different encryption keys can be used.
Machine learning and big data environments
Machine learning relies on especially high throughput and low latency to train deep neural networks and to improve recognition and classification accuracy. As the adapter to deliver 200 Gb/s throughput, ConnectX-6 is the perfect solution to provide machine learning applications with the levels of performance and scalability that they require.