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Cumulus (disclaimer: I co-founded it) has customers that use these: http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=260&mtag=connectx_5_en_card http://

by kijiki 8y ago

Cumulus (disclaimer: I co-founded it) has customers that use these: http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=260&mtag=connectx_5_en_card http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=260... to dual 100G attach their servers to a pair of ToR switches. As a result, they'd really love to have something faster than 100G for their ToR to spine uplinks, but that isn't quite available yet. Insanely (and awesomely), Mellanox already has these: http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=266&mtag=connectx_6_en_card http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=266... dual 200G NIC.

walrus01 8y ago
100G NICs and dual port of the same version are a really good argument for the need for more pci-express 3.0 lanes in single socket servers. The AMD epyc is a step in the right direction. If you assume a server that might have two m.2 nvme SSD in it, those take up lanes, and then the nic will eat an x16 interface.