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Technical Support
Customers who purchased NVIDIA products directly from NVIDIA are invited to contact us through
the following methods:
• URL: https://www.nvidia.com > Support
• E-mail: Network-support@nvidia.com
Customers who purchased NVIDIA M-1 Global Support Services, please see your contract for details
regarding Technical Support.
Customers who purchased NVIDIA products through a NVIDIA approved reseller should first
seek assistance through their reseller.
Related Documentation
MLNX_OFED for Linux User Manual and
Release Notes
WinOF-2 for Windows User Manual and
Release Notes
NVIDIA VMware for Ethernet User Manual
NVIDIA Firmware Utility (mlxup) User
Manual and Release Notes
NVIDIA Firmware Tools (MFT) User Manual
InfiniBand Architecture Specification
Release 1.2.1, Vol 2 - Release 1.3
IEEE Std 802.3 Specification
PCI Express Specifications
LinkX Interconnect Solutions
Document Conventions
When discussing memory sizes, MB and MBytes are used in this document to mean size in MegaBytes.
The use of Mb or Mbits (small b) indicates the size in MegaBits. In this document, PCIe is used to
mean PCI Express.
User Manual describing OFED features, performance, band
diagnostic, tools content, and configuration.
Linux Documentation.
User Manual describing WinOF-2 features, performance, Ethernet
diagnostic, tools content, and configuration.
Windows Documentation.
User Manual and release notes describing the various components
of the NVIDIA ConnectX® NATIVE ESXi stack.
Drivers Documentation.
NVIDIA firmware update and query utility used to update the
firmware. Refer to Firmware Utility (mlxup)
User Manual describing the set of MFT firmware management
tools for a single node.
InfiniBand Specifications
IEEE Ethernet Specifications
Industry Standard PCI Express Base and Card Electromechanical
Specifications. Refer to PCI-SIG
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. NVIDIA offers one of
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. Read more at LinkX Cables and
See MLNX_OFED for
See WinOF-2 for
See VMware® ESXi
Documentation.
See MFT User Manual.
Specifications.
Transceivers.
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