Mellanox Quantum™
Quantum is the world’s smartest network switch silicon, designed to enable in-network computing through the Co-Design Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) technology. The Co-Design architecture enables the usage of all active data center devices to accelerate the communications frameworks, resulting in order of magnitude applications performance improvements.
Quantum offers industry-leading integration of 160 SerDes, with rich speed flexibility ranging from 2.5Gb/s to 50Gb/s per lane, making this Mellanox switch an obvious choice for OEMs that must address end-user requirements for faster and more robust applications. Quantum leverages Mellanox’s innovative solution called SHIELD™ (Self-Healing Interconnect Enhancement for Intelligent Datacenters) to overcome link failure, enabling network recovery 5000x faster than any other software-based solution.
Network architects can utilize Quantum's reduced power and footprint, and a fully integrated PHY capable of connectivity across PCBs, backplanes, and passive and active copper/fiber cables, to deploy leading, fabric flexible computing and storage systems with the lowest total cost of ownership.
- SHIELD™– Makes the fabric capable with self-healing autonomy
- SHARP™ – Enables offloading collective operations from the CPU to the switch network
- Industry-leading switch silicon in performance, power and density
- Industry-leading cut-through latency
- Low-cost solution
- Backplane and cable support
- Up to 16Tb/s of switching capacity
- Up to 15.8 billion messages per second
- Up to 40 HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand ports
- Collective communication acceleration
- Hardware-based adaptive routing
- Hardware-based congestion control
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INFINIBAND
- IBTA Specification 1.3 compliant
- 40 x 10 to 200Gb/s InfiniBand ports
- Integrated SMA/GSA
- Hardware-based congestion control
- 256 to 4KB MTU I/O SPECIFICATIONS
- SPI Flash interface, I2C
- IEEE 1149.1/1149.6 boundary-scan JTAG
- LED driver I/Os
- General purpose I/Os CPU
- PowerPC, Intel x86, AMD X86 and MIPS PCI EXPRESS INTERFACE
- PCIe 3.0, 2.0, and 1.1 compliant
- 2.5GT/s, 5GT/s or 8GT/s x4 link rate CONNECTIVITY
- Interoperability with InfiniBand adapters and switches
- Active/passive copper cables, fiber optics, PCB or backplanes MANAGEMENT & TOOLS
- Support for Mellanox and IBTA compliant Subnet Managers (SM)
- Diagnostic and debug tools
- Fabric Collective Accelerator (FCA) software library