Nvidia ConnectX-7 PCI-E Expansion Card

NVIDIA ConnectX-7 PCI-E Expansion Card

Elevate your data center to the next era of computing with the NVIDIA ConnectX-7 PCI-E Expansion Card, the pinnacle of high-performance connectivity for AI, cloud, and hyperscale infrastructures. Designed to handle the most demanding workloads, this SmartNIC is an essential component for accelerating data-intensive applications and achieving unprecedented levels of efficiency and scale. By offloading and accelerating networking and security processes, the ConnectX-7 frees up valuable CPU cycles to focus on the application, dramatically improving performance and reducing total cost of ownership. It is the definitive solution for organizations seeking to build future-proof, agile, and secure data centers, providing a critical link between compute resources and high-speed data storage arrays.

Experience a paradigm shift in network throughput and latency. This powerful PCIe expansion card is engineered to break through bottlenecks that hinder modern AI and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. It enables faster data processing, shorter training times for complex AI models, and real-time analytics by delivering the industry´s most advanced networking capabilities. Whether deploying on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid model, the ConnectX-7 provides the robust and intelligent connectivity required to support exponential data growth and increasingly complex computational tasks, making it a cornerstone for any advanced IT architecture.

Key Benefits:

* Unmatched Performance: Achieve extreme throughput and ultra-low latency with up to 400Gb/s of bandwidth per port, ideal for scaling the most demanding applications and eliminating network congestion.
* Accelerated AI and HPC: Leverage NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA technology to enable direct data transfer between GPUs and the network, bypassing the CPU to significantly boost performance for machine learning and scientific computing workloads.
* Enhanced Data Center Security: Fortify your infrastructure from the ground up with a hardware Root of Trust (RoT), secure boot, and advanced inline crypto acceleration for IPsec and TLS, ensuring data is protected in transit without a performance penalty.
* Maximum Efficiency: Offload networking, storage, and security tasks from the CPU using powerful In-Network Computing and ASAP² (Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing) engines, increasing server efficiency and application performance.
* Advanced Timing and Synchronization: Implement highly accurate network timing with hardware support for the Precision Time Protocol (PTP), a critical requirement for distributed databases, financial services, and telecommunications.

Technical Specifications:

* Host Interface: PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 x16, backward compatible with PCIe 4.0
* Network Throughput: Up to 400Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity
* Acceleration Engines: RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and InfiniBand, MPI Tag Matching, All-to-All and Collectives Offloads
* Security Accelerators: Inline IPsec and TLS encryption/decryption, AES-GCM, Hardware Root of Trust
* Data Handling: Advanced Congestion Control and Quality of Service (QoS)
* Attributes: Data storage, Expansion cards, PCIe