System Requirements and Interoperability

Network Adapter Cards

NVIDIA® ConnectX®-5 / NVIDIA® ConnectX®-5 Ex

Firmware

v16.33.1048

Driver Stack

• MLNX_OFED: v5.6-1.0.3.3

• MLNX_EN: v5.6-1.0.3.3

Supported Operating Systems and Kernels

All Linux 64 bit distributions supported by:

• MLNX_OFED v5.6-1.0.3.3

• MLNX_EN v5.6-1.0.3.3

CPU Architecture

x86_64 (Intel Xeon), arm64, ppc64

Minimum memory requirements

1 GB of free memory for installation 800 MB per process running with VMA

Minimum disk space requirements

1 GB

Transport

Ethernet / InfiniBand / VPI

Binary RPM and DEB packages for 64-bit architecture for Linux distribution

• libvma-9.5.2-1.x86_64.rpm

• libvma-devel-9.5.2-1.x86_64.rpm

• libvma-utils-9.5.2-1.x86_64.rpm

• libvma_9.5.2-1_amd64.deb

• libvma-dev_9.5.2-1_amd64.deb

• libvma-utils_9.5.2-1_amd64.deb

Documentation

VMA Release Notes

VMA Installation and Quick Start Guide

VMA User Manual

sockperf

NVIDIA® (Open Source)

Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking

Version 3.8 (included in VMA package athttps://github.com/mellanox/sockperf)

netperf

Open Source

Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking

Version 2.6.0

NetPIPE

Open Source

Network Protocol Independent Performance Evaluator

Version 3.7.2

UMS (formerly LBM)

Informatica

Message Middleware Infrastructures

Version 6.7