Connected adapter cards with virtual Protocol interconnect (vpi), supporting EDR 100 GB/s Infiniband and 100 GB/s Ethernet connectivity, provide the highest performance and most flexible solution for high-performance, web 2.0, data analytics, database, and storage platforms. With the exponential growth of data being shared and stored by applications and social networks, the need for high-speed and High performance compute and storage data centers is skyrocketing. Connection provides exceptional High performance for the most demanding data centers, public and private Clouds, web 2.0 and big data applications, as well as high-performance computing (HPC) and storage systems, enabling today's corporations to meet the demands of the data explosion.