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InfiniBand
Architecture
Specification
InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) InfiniBand® specification Release 1.3.1,
November 2, 2016 and Vol. 2, Release 1.4 , and Vol 2 - Release 1.5.
PCI Express
Specifications
Industry Standard PCI Express Base and Card Electromechanical Specifications.
NVIDIA LinkX
Interconnect
Solutions
The NVIDIA® LinkX® product family of cables and transceivers provide the industry’s
broadest portfolio of QDR/FDR10 (40Gb/s), FDR (56Gb/s), EDR/HDR100 (100Gb/s),
HDR (200Gb/s) and NDR (400Gb/s) cables, including Direct Attach Copper cables
(DACs), copper splitter cables, Active Optical Cables (AOCs) and transceivers in a
wide range of lengths from 0.5m to 10km. In addition to meeting IBTA standards,
NVIDIA tests every product in an end-to-end environment ensuring a Bit Error Rate of
less than 1E-15.
BlueField DPU
Platform BSP
Documentation
This guide provides product release notes as well as information on the BSP and how
to develop and/or customize applications, system software, and file system images
for the BlueField platform.
DOCA SDK Software
Documentation
NVIDIA DOCA SDK software.
Document Conventions
When discussing memory sizes, GB and GBytes are used in this document to mean size in giga Bytes.
The use of Gb or Gbits (small b) indicates size in giga bits. In this document PCIe is used to mean PCI
Express.
Revision History
A list of the changes made to this document are provided inDocument Revision History.