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> Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx - Support for NIC kTLS offload Wild, didn't know nVidia was side-eyeing such far-apart but still parallel channels for their ?GPUs?.
by jareklupinski 5y ago
> Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx - Support for NIC kTLS offload
Wild, didn't know nVidia was side-eyeing such far-apart but still parallel channels for their ?GPUs?.
Was this all achievable using nVidia's APIs out-of-the-box, or did the firmware/driver require some in-house engineering :)
- fragmede 5y agoMellanox was bought by nVidia 2 years ago, so while it's technically accurate to say it's an nVidia card, that elides their history. Mellanox has been selling networking cards to the supercomputing market since 1999. Netflix absolutely had to do some tuning of various counters/queues/other settings in order to optimize for their workload and get the level of performance they're reporting here, but Mellanox sells NICs with firmware/drivers that work out-of-the-box.