Mellanox Firmware Utility
(mlxup) User Manual and
Release Notes
Mellanox firmware update and query utility used to update the firmware. Seeh
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Firmware Utility
Mellanox Firmware Tools
(MFT) User Manual
User Manual describing the set of MFT firmware management tools for a
single node. SeeMFT User Manual.
IEEE Std 802.3
Specification
IEEE Ethernet specification at http://standards.ieee.org/
PCI Express 3.0/4.0
Specifications
Industry Standard PCI Express Base and Card Electromechanical
Specifications at https://pcisig.com/specifications
Open Compute Project 3.0
Specification
https://www.opencompute.org/
Mellanox LinkX
Interconnect Solutions
Mellanox LinkX InfiniBand cables and transceivers are designed to maximize
the performance of High-Performance Computing networks, requiring high-
bandwidth, low-latency connections between compute nodes and switch
nodes. Mellanox offers one of industry’s broadest portfolio of QDR/FDR10
(40Gb/s), FDR (56Gb/s), EDR/HDR100 (100Gb/s) and HDR (200Gb/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,Mellanox tests every product
in an end-to-end environment ensuring a Bit Error Rate of less than 1E-15.Re
ad more at https://www.mellanox.com/products/interconnect/infiniband-
overview.php
Document Conventions
When discussing memory sizes, MB and MBytes are used in this document to mean size in mega
Bytes. The use of Mb or Mbits (small b) indicates size in mega bits. In this document PCIe is used to
mean PCI Express.