Changes and New Features History
For older versions history, please refer to their dedicated Release Notes.
Category |
Description |
27.2012.2014 |
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Counters |
Added PPCNT new group 0x26 and a new page 241 for Diagnostic Data VS MAD. |
Counters |
Added support for two performance class MADs : 1. PortXmitConCtrl 2. PortVLXmitTimeCong |
Resiliency |
Added a mechanism to release the packet interface when a long command packet handling timeout is detected to reduce firmware freeze. |
Telemetry |
Added support for Fast Recovery notifications of the OS entity in the network. |
General |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2012.1048 |
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General |
Stability improvements. |
27.2012.1010 |
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Fast Recovery from Unhealthy Links |
Added support of the fast recovery from unhealthy links including BER monitor and credit watchdog. |
Fast Recovery Notifications Towards UFM |
Added support for notifications of Fast Recovery towards UFM entity (collector) in the network. |
General |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2010.6102 |
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General |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2010.6064 |
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Counters: Unhealthy Link |
Added BER Monitor counters for unhealthy link. |
Additional Status in Each MAD |
Added support of AdditionalStatus in MAD packets. |
Mirroring Congested Packets Towards UFM |
Added support for mirroring of congested packets towards UFM entity (collector) in the network. |
General |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2010.5108 |
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General |
Stability improvements. |
27.2010.5002 |
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General |
Stability improvements. |
27.2010.4102 |
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General |
Stability improvements. |
27.2010.4010 |
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pFRN Collector |
Added support for mirroring of PFRN packets towards UFM entity (collector) in the subnet. |
PKEY Filter for Multicast |
Added support for MulticastPKeyTrapSuppression (PKEY mismatch filtering). |
SL to VL Mapping |
Added switch support for port mask optimization of SL to VL Mapping Table configuration. |
27.2010.3118 |
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Temperature Drift Tolerance |
Improved HDR InfiniBand temperature drift tolerance on Quantum systems. Improved the algorithm for periodic link maintenance which is performed by NVIDIA IC during normal link operation in order to compensate for changes in link environment that might influence the analog behavior of the SerDes blocks in order to prevent a degradation in link performance. |
27.2010.3004 |
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pFRN |
Added support for pFRN (Proactive Fault Routing Notification) which allows for dynamic link failure detection and route correction for topologies based on Adaptive Routing. |
Counters |
Added support for PortXmitWaitVLExtended counters. |
Fans |
Enlarged fans' PRM registers to support up to 16 fans. |
General |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2010.2246 |
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General |
Stability improvements. |
27.2010.2110 |
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General |
Stability improvements. |
27.2010.2036 |
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General |
Stability improvements. |
27.2010.1404 |
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General |
Stability improvements. |
27.2010.1310 |
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Congestion Control |
Added ES-level support for congestion control class key. |
Vendor Key |
Added ES-level support for vendor class key. |
27.2010.1202 |
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Counters |
Added support for PortVLXmitFlowCtlUpdateErrors counters. |
27.2008.3328 |
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Cables |
Added GA-level support for AOC splitter cables MFS1S50-H0xxE-LL. *Note that the cables above are HDR-only and are supported up to 30 meters. |
LinkX Cable Upgrade |
Added GA-level support, on supported cables, for direct firmware burning from the internal flash storage to reduce the bandwidth and accelerate the burning process, including burning several modules at a time. |
PKEY |
Added support for PKEY traps. |
Bug Fixes |
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27.2008.2500 |
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Cables |
Added support for cable MMS1W50-HM NVIDIA transceiver, IB HDR, up to 200Gb/s, QSFP56, MPO, 1310nm, FR4 on MQM8700-HS2R and MQM8790-HS2R systems. |
Cables |
Added GA-level support for Active Optical Cables MFS1S00-H0xx-LL . *Note that the cables above are HDR-only and are supported up to 30 meters. |
27.2008.2402 |
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Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2008.2300 |
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Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2008.2202 |
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LinkX Cable Upgrade |
Added beta-level support on supported cables for direct firmware burning from the internal flash storage to reduce the bandwidth and accelerate the burning process, including burning several modules at a time. |
27.2008.2102 |
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BER |
100Gb/s speed BER improvements. con |
Cables |
Added support for the following Active Fiber HDR cables: MFS1S00-H130E and MFS1S00-H150E. For further information see section Validated and Supported HDR Cables. |
Counters |
Added support for "Maximum PLR Counts per second (cps)" counter. |
IBdiagnet |
Updated the PPNCT group/DiagnosticData to use SymbolBER counters instead of Effective BER counters. |
Telemetry |
Added support for performance analysis using histogram-based traffic models to obtain the queue length distribution. |
27.2008.1904 |
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SHARP |
Added support for SHARP SAT performance counters. |
Adaptive Routing |
Added support for a new Adaptive Router counter (PortARTrials) as part of the PortRNCounters group. PortARTrials is used to indicate the number of times the AR decision mechanism is used per port |
27.2008.1604 |
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SHARP |
Added support for MAD security policy for SHARP. |
Cables |
Enabled PLR with Low-Latency (LL)-FEC mode in optical cables up to 30m. |
27.2008.1300 |
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EDR Link in ConnectX-6 100Gb/s cards |
EDR link speed is now supported when using ConnectX-6 100Gb/s HCA and connecting with HDR optical cables. |
27.2008.0232 |
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Link Speed |
Added support for FDR link speed when connecting a ConnectX-3 HCA with an HDR Quantum switch. |
SHARP |
SHARP stability improvements. |
SHARP |
Added support for legacy SHARP port and performance counters. |
Cables |
Enabled KP4RS FEC on Active Fiber cables (OPN: MFS1S00-V0xxE). |
Cables |
Disabled PLR on Active Fiber cables. |
Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2007.1124 |
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Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2007.0618 |
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Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2007.0300 |
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Performance |
Added support for link-negotiated credit size. |
General |
Added support for DCQCN Congestion Control. |
27.2000.3276 |
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NVIDIA Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP)™ |
SHARP (SAT) is at GA level. *SAT: Streaming Aggregation Tree |
27.2000.2708 |
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SHARP |
SHARP now supports running 2 flows in parallel. |
27.2000.2626 |
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Speed Link |
SDR link speed on InfiniBand systems is now available for all cables, including cables that do not advertise InfiniBand speed in their memory map. |
NVIDIA Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) |
SHARP (LLT) is at GA level, whereas SHARP (SAT) is at Beta level. *LLT: Local Latency Tree *SAT: Streaming Aggregation Tree |
General |
Added support for Error Injection with PTER register. |
General |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2000.2306 |
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General |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2000.2182 |
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General |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2000.2046 |
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NVIDIA Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) |
[Beta] NVIDIA Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) technology improves the performance of MPI operations by offloading collective operations from the CPU to the switch network, and by eliminating the need to send data multiple times between endpoints. |
Link Speed |
Added QDR/FDR support in Quantum switch systems when using optical cables of up to 30m. Note: QDR speed is only supported when using the FDR cables. See Validated and Supported FDR Cables |
Cables |
Removed PLR from active cables longer than 30m. |
27.2000.1886 |
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Physical Layer Retransmission (PLR) |
Added support to the Physical Layer Retransmission (PLR) functionality for HDR speed. |
Link Speed |
Link-up time improvements. The link up time is up to 60 sec |
27.2000.1600 |
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General |
See Bug Fixes. |
27.2000.1400 |
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Link Speed |
HDR speed rate is at GA level. |
Cables |
Added support for Break-Out Cable auto-sensing. |
27.2000.1142 |
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Link Speed |
HDR link stability enhancements. Note: HDR is at beta level. |
27.2000.1012 |
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Link Speed |
HDR speed rate is currently at beta level. |
27.2000.1004 |
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Link Speed |
Stability improvements for HDR link. |
Subnet Manager (Adaptive Routing) |
Added support for Adaptive Routing. Adaptive routing (AR) allows optimizing data traffic flow. The InfiniBand protocol uses multiple paths between any two points. Thus, when unexpected traffic patterns cause some paths to be overloaded, AR can automatically move traffic to less congested paths according to the current temporal state of the network. |
Adaptive Routing |
Added support for Private Linear Forwarding Tables (PLFT). This capability helps SM to optimize traffic. |