Aerial SDK is a software-defined workload hosted on NVIDIA-certified EGX servers and a stack that uses the CUDA OS platform and GPU/NIC/CPU firmware and toolkits. This section highlights the Aerial SDK workload configuration interdependencies as part of the NV platform stack.
A100x card qualification complete (x86 host mode)
A100x and A100 supports upto 4 carriers
Multi-GPU platform support (2 cells on each GPU )
| Description | Revision |
| Host OS | Ubuntu 20.04 with 5.4.0-65-lowlatency kernel |
| Container OS | Ubuntu 20.04 |
| CUDA | 11.7 |
| Host GPU driver | 515.43.04+ |
| Nvidia-peermem | Same as CUDA driver version |
| Mellanox OFED. | 5.7-1.0.2.0 |
| CX6-DX NIC FW. | 22.34.1002 |
| A100x FW. 24.34 | 24.34.1002 |
| BFB: TBD | |
| DPDK | DOCA DPDK |
| SCF SCF vendor specific extension: 222.10.04 | 222.10.02 |
| HW Platform. | Gigabyte DevKit 1.0 and Dell R750 |
| Description | Revision |
| Host OS | Ubuntu 20.04 server |
| Container OS | Ubuntu 20.04 |
| Containerd | 1.5.8 |
| Kubernetes version | 1.23 |
| Helm: | 3.8 |
| Network operator | 1.3.0+ |
| Mellanox OFED | same as above |
| CX6-DX NIC | FW: same as above |
| NVIDIA GPU Operator: | 1.11.1+ |
| NV GPU driver: | R515 |
| CUDA Toolkit | 11.7 |
| nvidia-peermem | Same as CUDA driver version |
| Feature | Configuration | Supported |
| Platform for Discrete GPU, NIC |
|
Y |
| Platform for Converged Accelerator | Dell R750
|
Y |
| Feature | Supported |
| Maintain integration, qualification of discreet GPU A100 | Y |
| Support Aerial SDK offload | Y |
| Preserve existing interfaces / API / shared memory buffers integrated with ISVs | Y |
| L2+ integrated with x86 host | Y |