System Requirements and Interoperability
The following table presents the currently certified combinations of stacks and platforms, and supported CPU architectures for the current VMA version.
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Specification |
Value |
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Network Adapter Cards |
NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 (4x25G) |
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NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 (200G) Crypto-disabled |
|
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NVIDIA® ConnectX®-5 / NVIDIA® ConnectX®-5 Ex |
|
|
Firmware |
28.39.2048 |
|
16.35.3006 |
|
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Driver Stack |
|
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Supported Operating Systems and Kernels |
Ubuntu 20.04, and RH 8.4, 8.6 (x86_64, arm64) |
|
CPU Architecture |
x86_64 (Intel Xeon), arm64 |
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Minimum memory requirements |
1 GB of free memory for installation 800 MB per process running with VMA |
|
Minimum disk space requirements |
1 GB |
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Transport |
Ethernet/InfiniBand |
|
Description |
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Binary RPM and DEB packages for 64-bit architecture for Linux distribution |
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Documentation |
VMA Release Notes VMA Installation and Quick Start Guide VMA User Manual |
The VMA library has been successfully tested and is certified to work with the applications listed in the following table.
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Application |
Company / Source |
Type |
Notes |
|
sockperf |
NVIDIA® (Open Source) |
Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking |
Version 3.10 (https://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 |