Mellanox ConnectX-6 Brings 200GbE and HDR Infiniband Fabric to HPC

[Patrick Kennedy]

At SC18, Mellanox showed off several versions of their newest 200GbE and 200Gbps HDR Infiniband cards. The Mellanox ConnectX-6 family is now the leading NIC solution in the Ethernet and Infiniband networking race

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[Rand__]

Instead of needing two separate cards, each NUMA node can directly attach to the fabric with this method. This is important for Intel Cascade Lake-SP which will come out in a few months with PCIe Gen3. ->4

And I thought those had been available for a while? But am not following closely tbh

 

[Patrick]

Cascade Lake is still listed as Gen3 not 4. That is what has people buzzing about Rome. First x86 with PCIe Gen4 before Cooper / Ice.

 

[Stephan]

Oh man. Wake up, Intel.