News Highlights:
- 100G Ethernet controller with smart congestion control engine minimizes system latency and enables greater cluster size for GPU-based high performance computing designs
- Scalable 10G/25G/50G/100G controller with TruFlowTM, the industry’s most advanced flow processing engine, increases server performance up to 50%
- Flexible multi-host controller with TruManageTM technology efficiently manages multi-host servers and improves network visibility and resource utilization
Key Features & Benefits
•100G Controller with Smart Congestion Control Engine for RoCEv2
- Anticipates and dynamically adjusts network flows via hardware to avoid network congestion and packet drops, enabling deterministic workload performance
- Enables scalable deep learning clusters up to hundreds of nodes using NVIDIA GPUDirect technology, providing faster training and response times for GPU-based high performance computing applications, such as advanced analytics, HPC, and deep learning training and inferencing
•TruFlowTM Advanced Flow Processing Engine
- Enables data center operators to offload virtual switch datapath processing from the host CPU to the NetXtreme controller, increasing available CPU cycles for applications thereby improving performance up to 50 percent
- Provides hardware-based QoS that enables enforceable SLAs so operators can guarantee and restrict bandwidth per virtual machine and prioritize traffic among different application types
•TruManage™ Technology with On-Chip Embedded Agent
- Enhances security by isolating network control from the host CPU, enabling “bare metal” service offerings by protecting network resources from untrusted software on the host while preserving the operators point of control
- Allows operators to treat Ethernet NIC as an extension of the network providing increased end-to-end visibility to quickly identify and correct network problems impacting service
“Modern high performance computing, networking and storage applications demand a 100G controller with highly optimized, purpose-built hardware acceleration engines to address network bandwidth demands,” said
“Driven by hyperscale cloud, NFV and deep machine learning, 100G Ethernet adapter and controller shipments are forecast to grow from a nascent 40 thousand ports in 2016 to 5 million ports by 2020,” said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research. “With the new NetXtreme E-Series 100G Ethernet controller coupled with its high-density 100G StrataXGS® Tomahawk® Series switch,
“With the support for NVIDIA’s GPUDirect RDMA technology, Broadcom’s 100Gb Ethernet controller enables NVIDIA GPU-accelerated clusters to deliver superior performance, scalability and efficiency for HPC, enterprise and deep learning applications,” said
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Availability
Further information on Broadcom’s latest 100G PCIe NIC and OCP Mezzanine products is available online at
https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-connectivity/network-adapters/
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