Aerial SDK Platform

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.

Highlights

Grace Hopper MGX system supports 20 light load BFP9 cells
AX800 and A100X card qualification completed (x86 host mode)
AX800 with Dell R750 supports 8 4T4R peak and 16 4T4R average BFP9 cells
A100X with Dell R750 supports 5 4T4R peak and 10 4T4R average BFP9 cells
A100 with Aerial Devkit supports up to 4 4T4R peak and 8 4T4R average BFP9 cells

Aerial SDK Overall Platform Qualification

Feature	Configuration	Supported
Grace Hopper MGX Platform	72-core NVIDIA Grace CPU NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU 480GB of LPDDR5X memory with ECC Supports 96GB of HBM3 BF3 NIC x2	Y
Platform for Discrete GPU, NIC	Servers x2 Model Gigabyte E251-U70 CPU Intel Xeon Gold 6240R, 2.4GHz, 24C48T Memory 96GB DDR4 Storage 480GB LiteOn SSD x1 GPU GA100 x2 NIC x2 MLX CX6-DX (MCX623106AE-CDAT)	Y
Platform for Converged Accelerator	Dell R750 Server Skew 10-AYCG Intel Xeon Gold 6336Y 2.4G, 24C/48T PCIe Gen4 Memory 512GB DDR4 Storage 2TB GPU+NIC AX800 or A100X NIC CX6-DX	Y

Discrete GPU Support

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

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