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Innova-2 Flex

Advanced Programmability Delivers Acceleration and Performance

The need to accelerate applications such as security and access to storage spans AI, media and entertainment, cloud, and more. The NVIDIA^® Mellanox^® Innova^™-2 Flex Open Programmable SmartNIC natively offers industry-leading accelerations, such as hardware support for RoCE, overlay networks, stateless offload engines, and NVIDIA GPUDirect^®. Similarly, the on-board FPGA further increases flexibility by offloading the CPU of processes within custom applications.

Open Programmable SmartNIC

Maximizing network efficiency and scalability, the NVIDIA Mellanox Innova-2 Flex Open Programmable SmartNIC offers customers an open platform to develop custom-made offloads for a range of markets, including Storage, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence, Security, and more. By combining the advanced ConnectX^®-5 InfiniBand and Ethernet network controller ASIC with a state-of-the-art FPGA on board creating the ideal infrastructure for developers to implement their own applications to achieve hardware-like performance with minimum time-to-market.

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Highlights

NETWORK CONTROLLER

ConnectX-5

FPGA

Kintex^® UltraScale^™

MEMORY

x8 Gen2/Gen3

ENCRYPTION

Ethernet/InfiniBand

Achieving Maximum Efficiency

RoCE

The NVIDIA RoCE technology encapsulates packet transport over Ethernet and lowers CPU load to enable a high bandwidth and low latency network infrastructure for networking and storage-intensive applications.

ASAP²

The groundbreaking NVIDIA ASAP² technology delivers innovative SR-IOV and VirtIO acceleration by offloading Open vSwitch datapath from the host’s CPU to the adapter to enable extreme performance and scalability.

SR-IOV

ConnectX adapters leverage SR-IOV to separate access to physical resources and functions in virtualized environments. This diminishes I/O overhead and allows adapters to maintain near non-virtualized performance.

Key Features

Dual-port 25Gb/s Ethernet or dual-port EDR InfiniBand / 100Gb/s Ethernet
Complete Mellanox and Xilinx FPGA for “look-aside” accelerations
Low latency RDMA and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
OVS and Erasure Coding offloads
NVIDIA Mellanox PeerDirect^® communication acceleration
End-to-end QoS and congestion control
Hardware-based I/O virtualization
RoHS compliant

Benefits

Versatile adapter combining ability to accelerate computational tasks
Leverages single PCIe slot for providing “look-aside” accelerations
Suitable for FPGA as a service deployment
Suitable for advanced security and compression accelerations
Industry leading throughput and latency for data center applications
Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity
Open platform for easy development of user applications and deployment to the FPGA

Resources

Product Documents
Firmware
Software Driver

Innova-2 Flex Product Brief

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