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ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter

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Abstract

The ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter is an advanced programmable network adapter that combines the advanced ConnectX-5 Ethernet network controller ASIC with an onboard state-of-the-art FPGA. Such a combination enables customers to develop custom-made offloads for a range of applications, including storage, HPC, machine learning, and security.

This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the adapter and its key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the ConnectX-5 adapter and consider its use in IT solutions.

Withdrawn from marketing: The ConnectX-5 FPGA adapter is now withdrawn from marketing.

Change History

Changes in the October 31, 2023 update:

Introduction

The ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter is an advanced programmable network adapter that combines the advanced ConnectX-5 Ethernet network controller ASIC with an onboard fully-open programmable Xilinx FPGA. Such a combination enables customers to develop custom-made offloads for a range of applications, including storage, HPC, machine learning, and security.

The following figure shows the ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter (the standard heat sink has been removed in this photo).

ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter
Figure 1. ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter

Did you know?

The slowing of CPU advancement has created a need for a new era of Data Center accelerators in the form of FPGAs. The increasing diversity and breadth of data center applications is requiring different, optimized accelerator architectures, that is outpacing the speed of innovation in silicon design cycles. FPGAs are a rapidly evolving technology that enable the creation of competitive advantages for the emergence of AI application integration and the explosion in volume of unstructured data requiring accelerated processing.

Part number information

The following table shows the part number for the adapter.

Withdrawn from marketing: The ConnectX-5 FPGA adapter is now withdrawn from marketing.

Table 1. Ordering information
Part
number		 Feature
code		 Mellanox
equivalent		 Description
4XC7A16683 B5XZ MNV303212A-ADLT ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter

The part numbers include the following:

  • One Mellanox adapter
  • Low-profile (2U) and full-height (3U) adapter brackets
  • Documentation

Supported transceivers and cables

The following table lists the supported transceivers.

Table 2. Transceivers
Part number Feature code Description NVIDIA part number
10Gb Transceivers
90Y9412A1PMSFP+ LR Transceiver-
46C34475053SFP+ SR Transceiver-
4TC7A78615BNDRThinkSystem Accelink 10G SR SFP+ Ethernet transceiver-
25Gb Transceivers
4M27A67041BFH2Lenovo 25Gb SR SFP28 Ethernet Transceiver-
7G17A03537AV1BLenovo Dual Rate 10G/25G SR SFP28 Transceiver-
4TC7A88638BYBJThinkSystem Finisar Dual Rate 10G/25G SR SFP28 Transceiver-

25Gb transceivers: When installed in this 25Gb Ethernet adapter, 25Gb transceivers are designed to operate at either 25 Gb/s or 10 Gb/s speeds as listed in the description of the transceiver, however the speed also depends on the negotiation with the connected switch. In most configurations, this negotiation is automatic, however in some configurations you may have to manually set the link speed or FEC mode.

The following table lists the supported optical cables.

Table 3. Optical cables
Part numberFeature codeDescriptionNVIDIA part number
LC-LC OM3 Fiber Optic Cables (these cables require a 10 GbE SFP+ SR or 25 GbE SFP28 SR transceiver)
00MN499ASR5Lenovo 0.5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable-
00MN502ASR6Lenovo 1m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable-
00MN505ASR7Lenovo 3m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable-
00MN508ASR8Lenovo 5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable-
00MN511ASR9Lenovo 10m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable-
00MN514ASRALenovo 15m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable-
00MN517ASRBLenovo 25m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable-
00MN520ASRCLenovo 30m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable-
SFP+ 10Gb Active Optical Cables
00YL634ATYXLenovo 1M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable-
00YL637ATYYLenovo 3M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable-
00YL640ATYZLenovo 5M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable-
00YL643ATZ0Lenovo 7M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable-
00YL646ATZ1Lenovo 15M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable-
00YL649ATZ2Lenovo 20M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable-
SFP28 25Gb Active Optical Cables
4X97A94008AV1FLenovo 3m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
4X97A94011AV1GLenovo 5m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
4X97A94012AV1HLenovo 10m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
4X97A94013AV1JLenovo 15m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
4X97A94702AV1KLenovo 20m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
7Z57A03541C10RLenovo 3m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
7Z57A03542C10SLenovo 5m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
7Z57A03543C10NLenovo 10m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
7Z57A03544C10TLenovo 15m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
7Z57A03545C1MBLenovo 20m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable-
QSFP28 100Gb Ethernet Breakout Active Optical Cables
7Z57A03551AV1RLenovo 3m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable-
7Z57A03552AV1SLenovo 5m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable-
7Z57A03553AV1TLenovo 10m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable-
7Z57A03554AV1ULenovo 15m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable-
7Z57A03555AV1VLenovo 20m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable-

The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables.

Table 4. Copper cables
Part numberFeature codeDescriptionNVIDIA part number
SFP+ 10Gb Passive DAC Cables
00D6288A3RG0.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable-
90Y9427A1PH1m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable-
00AY764A51N1.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable-
00AY765A51P2m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable-
90Y9430A1PJ3m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable-
90Y9433A1PK5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable-
00D6151A3RH7m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable-
SFP+ 10Gb Active DAC Cables
00VX111AT2RLenovo 1m Active DAC SFP+ Cables-
00VX114AT2SLenovo 3m Active DAC SFP+ Cables-
00VX117AT2TLenovo 5m Active DAC SFP+ Cables-
SFP28 25Gb Passive DAC Cables
7Z57A03557AV1WLenovo 1m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable-
7Z57A03558AV1XLenovo 3m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable-
7Z57A03559AV1YLenovo 5m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable-

Features

The Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA adapter offers a number of features, including the following:

Ease of development and deployment

Customers can easily develop and deploy FPGA applications, using the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite development environment (licensed separately from Xilinx) and the Mellanox tools suite. The feature-rich adapter, together with the High Level Synthesis (HLS) capabilities of the Xilinx Vivado design and backend development environment, create the ideal infrastructure for developers to implement their own applications and to achieve hardware-like performance with minimum time-to-market.

Workload-oriented design

Security: Customers can create highly optimized and unique solutions that serve a variety of security use cases, including data encryption, decryption and more.

Storage: The adapter enables the acceleration and scalability of different types of storage applications. For example, it can help deliver transparent data compression, decompression or deduplication capabilities, improving overall storage utilization with minimal additional load on the server CPU.

Media & entertainment: The adapter offers a unique, compliant and differentiated solution for streaming applications through custom accelerations, providing the ability to manage multiple 4K/8K streams in a single host, with lower CPU and PCIe bandwidth utilization. Other capabilities include customized offload of packet pacing, video down-sampling, and switching for video redundancy.

Convenient packaging

The Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA Adapter reduces TCO by combining the FPGA acceleration with the low-latency network controller on a single PCIe slot. The FPGA chip connects to the host via an on-board PCIe switch supporting PCIe x8 Gen4, and also is visible to the host as a PCIe device.

Technical specifications

  • Single-slot low-profile adapter:
    • Dual-port 10GbE and 25GbE Ethernet connectivity
    • Xilinx Kintex UltraScale XCKU15P Application Accelerator FPGA
    • 8GB DDR4-2400 on-board memory
    • PCIe 4.0 x8 host interface (backward compatible with PCIe 3.0)
  • Ethernet
    • 25GbE / 10GbE
    • IEEE 802.3bj, 802.3bm 25 Gigabit Ethernet
    • IEEE 802.3by, Ethernet Consortium 25 Gigabit
    • IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
    • IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation
    • IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
    • IEEE 802.1Qau Congestion Notification
    • IEEE 802.1Qaz D0.2 ETS
    • IEEE 802.1Qbb D1.0 Priority-based Flow Control
    • IEEE 1588v2
    • Jumbo frame support (9600 byte)
    • IPv4 (RFQ 791)
    • IPv6 (RFC 2460)
  • Remote Boot
    • Remote boot over Ethernet
    • UEFI-supported
  • Enhanced features and offloads:
    • RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
    • RAID offload – erasure coding (Reed-Solomon ) offload
    • Hardware-based reliable transport
    • PeerDirect RDMA (GPUDirect communication acceleration)
    • Enhanced Atomic operations
    • Advanced memory mapping support, allowing user mode registration and remapping of memory (UMR)
    • LSO, LRO, checksum offload
    • RSS VLAN and MPLS tag insertion/stripping, Receive flow steering
    • Intelligent interrupt coalescing Hardware-Based I/O Virtualization
    • Single Root IOV
    • SR-IOV: Up to 512 Virtual Function
    • SR-IOV: Up to 2 Physical Functions
      • Virtualizing Physical Functions on a physical port
      • SR-IOV on every Physical Function
    • Address translation and protection
    • Guaranteed QoS for VMs
  • Media & entertainment IP video formats
    • SMPTE 2110-20
    • SMPTE 2110-21N/NL
  • Management and control interfaces
    • NC-SI
    • MCTP over SMBus
    • NC-SI over MCTP / BMC
  • PCI Express host interface
    • TLP (Transaction Layer Packet) Processing Hints (TPH)
    • Access Control Service (ACS) for peer-to-peer secure communication
    • Advance Error Reporting (AER)
    • Process Address Space ID (PASID) Address Translation Services (ATS)
    • Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms

    Note: The internal OpenCAPI interface is not supported by Lenovo

Server support

The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.

Table 5. Server support - Current servers (Part 1 of 2)
Part Number Description AMD V3 2S Intel V3/V4 1S V3 4S 8S Intel V3/V4
4XC7A16683 ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
Table 6. Server support - Current servers (Part 2 of 2)
Part Number Description AI Servers Edge Super computing
4XC7A16683 ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter N N N N N N N N N N
Table 7. Server support - Withdrawn servers (Part 1 of 3)
Part Number Description Edge 1S Intel V2 2S Intel V2 AMD V1 Multi node AI
4XC7A16683 ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
Table 8. Server support - Withdrawn servers (Part 2 of 3)
Part Number Description SC Dense V2 4S V2 8S 4S V1 1S Intel V1
SR150 (7Y54)
4XC7A16683 ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter N N N N N N N N N N Y N N N N N N N
Table 9. Server support - Withdrawn servers (Part 3 of 3)
Part Number Description 2S Intel V1 Dense V1
4XC7A16683 ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter N N N N N Y Y N Y N N N

Operating system support

The adapter supports the operating systems listed in the following table.

Tip: This table is automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.

Table 10. Operating system support for ThinkSystem Mellanox Innova-2 ConnectX-5 FPGA 25GbE 2-port Adapter, 4XC7A16683
Operating systems
SD530 (Xeon Gen 1)
SD530 (Xeon Gen 2)
SR630 (Xeon Gen 2)
SR650 (Xeon Gen 2)
SR630 (Xeon Gen 1)
SR650 (Xeon Gen 1)
SR950 (Xeon Gen 1)
SR950 (Xeon Gen 2)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Y N N N Y Y Y N
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Y Y Y N Y N Y Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Warranty

One year limited warranty. When installed in a Lenovo server, this adapter assumes the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrades.

Related product families

Product families related to this document are the following:

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