Overview

Today's leading trading firms, market makers, hedge funds, and exchanges demand low latency trade execution and risk management for competitive advantage. For traders seeking a plug-and-play NIC upgrade, the new Alveo™ X3 low latency network adapters offers a turnkey deployment option.

Key Features & Benefits

• Low latency networking solution with high port density (up to 4x 10/25G)
• Optimized architecture for reliable operation and trade execution
• Support for full kernel bypass using Onload®, TCPDirect, and ef_vi API

Solarflare QSFP+ to SFP+ breakout cables enable users to connect Solarflare SFN7142Q dual-port QSFP+ server I/O adapters to work as a quad-port SFP+ server I/O adapters. The breakout cables offer a cost-effective option to support connectivity flexibility in high-speed data center applications.

These high performance direct-attach assemblies support 2 lanes of 10 Gb/s per QSFP+ port and are available in lengths of 1 meters and 3 meters. The SOLR-QSFP2SFP-1M, -3M copper DAC cables are fully tested and compatible with the Solarflare SFN7142Q server I/O adapter. These cables are compliant with the SFF-8431, SFF-8432, SFF-8436, SFF-8472 and IBTA Volume 2 Revision 1.3 specifications.

Solarflare QSFP+ to SFP+ breakout cables enable users to connect Solarflare SFN7142Q dual-port QSFP+ server I/O adapters to work as a quad-port SFP+ server I/O adapters. The breakout cables offer a cost-effective option to support connectivity flexibility in high-speed data center applications.

These high performance direct-attach assemblies support 2 lanes of 10 Gb/s per QSFP+ port and are available in lengths of 1 meters and 3 meters. The SOLR-QSFP2SFP-1M, -3M copper DAC cables are fully tested and compatible with the Solarflare SFN7142Q server I/O adapter. These cables are compliant with the SFF-8431, SFF-8432, SFF-8436, SFF-8472 and IBTA Volume 2 Revision 1.3 specifications.

The Solarflare ® SFM40G-SR4 850nm QSFP+ optical transceivers are compatible with all Solarflare 40G Ethernet QSFP+ products, and deliver a complete solution to customers for 40GBASE-SR4 applications.

SFM40G-SR4 850nm QSFP+ optical transceivers are hot-pluggable QSFP+ footprint devices for use in 40-Gigabit Ethernet links over multi-mode fiber. They are compliant to the QSFP+ MSA SFF-8436 and IEEE 802.3ba 40GBASE-SR4 and XLPPI QSFP+ specifications.

The transceiver is a Quad (4-channel) Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP+), optical module as defined in the QSFP+ SFF-8436 specifi-cation. This low-power module supports multi-mode fiber (MMF) media with standard MTP (MPO) optical connectors.

Compatibility and Performance

The SFM40G-SR4 QSFP+ optical transceiver uses proven high reliability 850 nm technology, is fully tested, and is compatible with all Solarflare QSFP+ 40GbE server adapters. The SFM40G-SR4 supports up to 100 meter using OM3 multimode fiber and the industry- standard MTP (MPO) optical connector.

Superior Customer Experience

For added convenience, Solarflare's optical transceivers can now be purchased together with server adapters for simultaneous delivery. This optical transceiver product also facilitates those who are ordering a complete server adapter solution in a single transaction.

A Complete Solution

40GBASE-SR4 850nm QSFP+ Optical Transceiver The SFM40G-SR4 QSFP+ transceiver enhances Solarflare's 40GbE QSFP+ server adapter products by ensuring they deliver highly-scalable performance, low-latency, and low-power. Combined with the SFM40G-SR4 transceiver, Solarflare server adapters offer exceptional value for data centers, enterprise networks, high-performance computing (HPC), cloud, big data, grid, and virtualization applications.

Regulatory Compliance

SFM40G-SR4 optical transceiver is designed for EN (IEC) 60825 and US FDA CDRH eye saftey compliance and is certified as a Class 1M laser product. The transceiver is RoHS compliant and lead-free.

Product Description

For cloud and enterprise architects building modern data centers, the Alveo U25N provides a comprehensive 25GbE SmartNIC platform that brings true convergence of network and security acceleration functions like OVS and IPsec into a single platform.

The U25N SmartNIC platform is based on the fusion of three technologies, a powerful System on a Chip (SoC) that includes an FPGA and multi-core Arm processor, and a proven XtremeScale™ X2 Ethernet Controller. The FPGA enables in-line hardware acceleration and offload with maximum efficiency while avoiding unnecessary data movements. 

The Arm cores handle exception traffic processing, and FPGA-related management and statistics. The X2 Ethernet Controller chip provides a platform for processing two ports of 25 Gigabit Ethernet via field-proven software drivers

Key Features & Benefits | Powerful SmartNIC

The U25N delivers ultra-high throughput, small packet performance, and low latency. The host interface supports standard NIC drivers as well as Onload® kernel bypass to provide both TCP and packet-based APIs for network application acceleration. The U25N is also tamper-resistant and provides secure flow monitoring with enforcement via a stateless firewall.

Programmable Platform

The U25N SmartNIC contains a programmable FPGA processing all the network flows. Each flow can be individually delivered to the host and/or streamed in hardware through bump-in-the-wire network acceleration functions. The platform also enables the ability for customers to accelerate custom workloads.

Hardware Accelerated for Clouds

Cloud service providers are deploying SmartNIC fabrics to achieve virtual switching and micro-segmentation of services that scale linearly with CPU cores and network links. The U25N is a platform for the industry's first converged SmartNIC fabric, including shrink-wrapped applications.

AMD ADVANTAGES

• Bump-in-the-wire model to offload and accelerate networking and security functions
• Turnkey advanced network accelerations including Open vSwitch (OvS), IPsec, and firewall
• Application customization and programmability enables flexibility to add custom workloads
• Baseline NIC feature parity with field-proven XtremeScale™ Ethernet controllers

Solarflare SFM10G-SR 10GBASE-SR 850nm Multimode SFP+ transceivers are compatible with all Solarflare 10G Ethernet SFP+ products, and deliver a complete solution to SFP+ customers for 10GBASE-SR applications.

The new XtremeScale™ SFN8000 adapter family provides Solarflare's best performance yet, with higher bandwidth, lower latency and higher packet rate. The SFN8000 family adapters are based on a common hardware platform, enabling customers to configure the features and performance they want to meet the particular needs of each application. Capabilities such as ultra-low latency, Onload® kernel bypass, class leading clock synchronization accuracy providing MIFID II readiness, ServerLock® Filter Engine, SolarCapture® Pro and more can be enabled to run on any SFN8000 adapter on the network, making this the one Ethernet adapter to deploy across your data center or cloud infrastructure.

CPU-Efficient Networking
The XtremeScale SFN8542 dual-port 40G Ethernet QSFP+ server adapter delivers faster, more efficient processing of network traffic to accelerate a wide range of applications. The SFN8542 has 16 lanes of PCIe 3.1 making it an ideal workhorse for 40GbE data center and cloud workloads, providing high-bandwidth, high packet rate and CPU-efficient processing of network traffic. The SFN8542 can be configured as a dual-port 40GbE or a quad-port 10GbE adapter as one QSFP+ port can also operate as four 10GbE SFP+ ports.

Configurable Software
When configured with Solarflare software licenses, the SFN8542 can address ultra-low latency applications, highly accurate clock synchronization and hardware time stamping, packet filtering, packet capture and more. Adapters can be purchased pre-configured with popular software bundles, or configured on-site with software options.

Ultra-Low Latency
The platform's hardware optimizes packet flow to and from the user application. When licensed for ultra-low latency, it delivers unrivaled sub-microsecond TCP and UDP latency. With Onload, the industry's best application-to-application performance is enabled via Solarflare's unique and patented kernel bypass techniques.

Accelerating Applications
The SFN8542 is ideal for scale-out cloud, web and CDN application environments. Solarflare adapters are used in a wide range of use cases, including Software-defined networking (SDN), Network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NOSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks. The SFN8542 also provides the ideal link between fast NVMe storage and the network. In addition when used with Onload, the SFN8542 further reduces host processing overhead and accelerates web and cloud traffic. When used with ServerLock Filter Engine, the SFN8542 provides an additional layer of defense against DDoS attacks at the network ingress point to the server. Attacks can be absorbed without degradation of "good" traffic, enabling a 3 to 4x improvement in packet-level filtering server headroom.

Scalable, High-Performance Virtualization
Solarflare is the proven leader in VM density and performance, and the SFN8542 raises the bar with 2048 vNICs, SR-IOV, overlay network acceleration e.g. VXLAN, NVGRE. In addition, the SFN8542 supports kernel bypass running in a guest VM, so users can run ultra-low latency Onload or SolarCapture Pro in a virtualized or cloud environment.

The SFN8542 is also fully flow-aware, providing flexible layer 2-4 flow processing and flow steering natively. The benefits are efficient flow acceleration in almost every environment from the data center to the stock exchange.

The AMD Alveo™ U55C high performance compute cardprovides optimized acceleration for workloads in high performance computing (HPC), big data analytics and search, financial computing, computational storage and machine learning.

Featuring powerfulVirtex™ XCU55 UltraScale+ FPGA from AMD, the Alveo U55C card packs in high bandwidth memory (HBM2) and 200Gbps of high-speed networking into a single slot, small form factor card, and is designed for deployment in any server.

The U55C accelerator is paired with the new standards-based API-driven clustering solution from AMD and equipped with C/C++ programmability. This solution empowers a broad spectrum of customers with large-scale compute workloads to realize the performance advantages of FPGAs at 1000+ node scale, easily implementing HPC clustering using their existing data center infrastructure and network, with no proprietary hardware required.

The U55C card supports PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen3x16 or dual Gen4x8, contains 16 GB of High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) at 460GB/s of bandwidth, and Ethernet networking capability with dual QSFP28 connectors capable of 2 x 100 Gb/s.

Enabling Alveo accelerator cards is an ecosystem of AMD and partner applications for common data center workloads. For custom solutions, the Application Developer Tool Suite (Vitis™ environment) and Machine Learning Suite from AMD provide the frameworks for developers to bring differentiated applications to market.

Key Features & Benefits

Built for Performance & Efficiency

• Faster application performance with 16GB HBM memory and PCIe Gen4 interconnect
• Low latency network capability through 2x100G networking with support for 8x 25GbE, or 2x 100GbE

Adaptable - Accelerate Any Workload

• Accelerates compute, network, storage workloads
• Perfect for HPC workloads: Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), Big Data Analytics, Finite Engineering Method (FEM), Signal Processing
• Ideal for Scale Up and Scale Out system architectures

Accessible - Cloud <-> On-Premises Mobility

• Built for scale out architectures for deployment solutions on the cloud or on-premises interchangeably
• Network Attached
• Ready for Scale COTS
• Ready to deploy in Standard DCs
• Using existing DC infrastructure

The Xilinx® Alveo™ U50 Data Center accelerator cards provide optimized acceleration for workloads in financial computing, machine learning, computational storage, and data search and analytics. Built on Xilinx UltraScale+ architecture and packaged up in an efficient 75-watt, small form factor, and armed with 100 Gbps networking I/O, PCIe Gen4, and HBM, Alveo U50 is designed for deployment in any server.

Alveo accelerator cards are adaptable to changing acceleration requirements and algorithm standards, capable of accelerating any workload without changing hardware, and reduce overall cost of ownership.

Enabling Alveo accelerator cards is an ecosystem of Xilinx and partner applications for common Data Center workloads. For custom solutions, Xilinx's Application Developer Tool Suite (SDAccel™ tool) and Machine Learning Suite provide the frameworks for developers to bring differentiated applications to market.

Xilinx's XtremeScale™ X2541 single-port 10/25/40/50/100G ethernet network adapters are designed for high-performance electronic trading environments, and cloud and enterprise data centers; including artificial intelligence, big data,analytics, machine learning, storage, and telco applications.

NETWORKING

Record-breaking low latency and high throughput network adapters provide real- time packet and flow information to thousands of virtual NICs. This combination of ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, ultra-scale connectivity, and packet telemetry allows X2 series adapters to scale with each server, virtual machine or container.

ACCELERATION

For electronic trading environments, Onload® kernel bypass application acceleration and dpdK services deliver superior small packet performance with sub-microsecond hardware latency.

Onload dramatically accelerates and scales network-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, software load balancers, and web servers. With Onload,data centers can support 4X or more users on their cloud network while delivering improved reliability, enhanced quality of service(QoS), and a higher return on investment, without modification to existing applications.

In addition, X2541 adapters support the precision time protocol(PTP)fabric service for apps that require synchronized time stamping of packets down to single-digit nanosecond resolution.

TELEMETRY

Solarcapture® Pro packet capture software enables X2541 adapters to capture and time stamp packets in hardware, persist packet to disk, and replay packets streams. this feature provides the essential ingredient for corporate data centers to run applications such as high-precision network performance monitoring, analysis, and regulatory compliance.

WORKLOADS

The X2541 adapters are ideal for scale-out cloud,web, and CDN application environments. Use cases include software-defined networking(SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, No SQL databases, caching tiers(Memcached), web proxies, video streaming, and storage networks.

X2541 adapters speed up TCP, unicast, multicast and UDP traffic for a wide variety of trading applications. from mission-critical exchange gateways and matching engines on the financial exchange side, to feed handlers, order routing, algorithmic trading engines, messaging applications, order execution, data distribution and client communications on the trading side, XtremeScale network adapters are considered the de facto standard in electronic trading environments.