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.
| Specification | Value |
| Network Adapter Cards | NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 (4x25G) |
| NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 (200G) Crypto-disabled | |
| NVIDIA® ConnectX®-5 / NVIDIA® ConnectX®-5 Ex | |
|
Firmware | 28.39.1002 |
| 16.35.3006 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
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sockperf |
NVIDIA® (Open Source) |
Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking |
Version 3.10 (https://github.com/mellanox/sockperf) |
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netperf |
Open Source |
Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking |
Version 2.6.0 |
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NetPIPE |
Open Source |
Network Protocol Independent Performance Evaluator |
Version 3.7.2 |
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UMS (formerly LBM) |
Informatica |
Message Middleware Infrastructures |
Version 6.7 |