The HP IB 4X QDR CX-2 PCI-e G2 Dual-port HCA is based on the Mellanox Connect X-2 IB technology. The Mellanox Connect X-2 Infini Band technology delivers low-latency & high-bandwidth for performance-driven server & storage clustering applications in High-performance computing (HPC), & enterprise data centers. Parallelized HPC applications, clustered data bases, & latency & bandwidth sensitive transactional services will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time & lower cost per operation.