Aerial SDK 23-1
Aerial SDK 23-1

Introduction

This document describes the supported configurations, test-vector configurations, and limitations for this release of the NVIDIA® cuBB® SDK.

Release Version: 23-1

Description

Revision

Host OS Ubuntu 20.04 with 5.4.0-65-lowlatency kernel
A100X CUDA Toolkit: 11.8.0+ GPU Driver: 520.61.05+ MOFED: 5.8-1.0.1.1 NIC FW: fw-BlueField-2-v24_35_1700-699210040230_Ax BFB: DOCA_1.5.1_BSP_3.9.3_Ubuntu_20.04-4.2211-LTS.signed.bfb
A100 CUDA Toolkit: 11.8.0+ GPU Driver: 520.61.05+
CX6-DX NIC MOFED: 5.8-1.0.1.1 NIC FW: 22.35.1012
NVIDIA-peermem 520.61.05+ (included in CUDA driver)
DPDK Included in Mellanox DOCA
DOCA Mellanox DOCA 1.6 + DOCA GPUNetIO Early Access
SCF 222.10.02 (partial upgrade to 222.10.04)
Server Gigabyte(E251-U70) with Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6240R CPU @ 2.40GHz Dell R750 with duel Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6336Y CPU @ 2.40GHz
GPU A100, A100x
Note

A100X FW fw-BlueField-2-v24_35_1700-699210040230_Ax is required to run the E2E test in LLS-C3 topology. Contact NVIDIA CPM to get this A100X NIC FW.

Description

Revision

Host OS Ubuntu 20.04 with 5.4.0-65-lowlatency kernel
Container OS Ubuntu 20.04
Containerd 1.5.8
Kubernetes 1.23
Helm 3.8
Network operator 1.4.0+
Mellanox OFED 5.8-1.0.1.1
CX6-DX NIC FW 22.35.1012
A100X NIC FW 24.35.1700
GPU operator 22.9.0+
CUDA Toolkit 11.8.0+
NVIDIA GPU Driver 520.61.05+
NVIDIA-peermem 520.61.05+ (included in CUDA driver)

This section defines common acronyms, abbreviations, and terms that are used in this cuBB SDK documentation.

Term or Abbreviation

Definition

Aerial SDK that accelerates 5G RAN functions with the GPU
cuBB CUDA GPU software libraries/tools that accelerate 5G RAN compute-intensive processing.
cuPHY CUDA 5G PHY layer software library of the cuBB
cuPHY-CP cuPHY control-plane software
HDF5 A data file format used for storing test vectors. The HDF5 software library provides functions for reading and writing the test vector files.
CMake CMake is a software tool for configuring the makefiles for building the SDK CUDA examples.
DPDK Data Plane Development Kit
CX6-DX Mellanox ConnectX6-DX NIC
CDM/FDM/TDM Code-division multiplexing, Frequency Division Multiplexing, Time-Division Multiplexing
MU-MIMO Multi-User Multiple Input - Multiple Output
SU-MIMO Single-User Multiple Input - Multiple Output
RB Resource Block
PRB Physical Resource Block
RE Resource Element
REG Resource Element Group
CORESET Control Resource Set
DCI Downlink Control Information
DMRS Demodulation Reference Signal
eCPRI Enhanced Common Public Radio Interface
MIB Master Information Block
O-RAN Open Radio Access Network
SIB/SIB1 System Information Block
TTI Transmission Time Interval
LDPC Low-Density Parity Check Code
PDCCH Physical Downlink Control Channel
PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
PUCCH Physical Uplink Control Channel
PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared Channel
PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
UCI Uplink Control Information
UE-EM UE Emulator Test Equipment
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