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Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution for Linux (MLNX_OFED)
Overview
Clustering using commodity servers and storage systems is seeing widespread deployments in
large and growing markets such as high performance computing, data warehousing, online transaction
processing, financial services and large scale web 2.0 deployments. To enable distributed
computing transparently and with maximum efficiency, applications in these markets require the
highest I/O bandwidth and lowest possible latency. These requirements are compounded with the
need to support a large interoperable ecosystem of networking, virtualization, storage, and other
applications and interfaces. The OFED from OpenFabrics Alliance (www.openfabrics.org) has been
hardened through collaborative development and testing by major high performance I/O vendors.
Mellanox OFED (MLNX_OFED) is a Mellanox tested and packaged version of OFED and supports
two interconnect types using the same RDMA (remote DMA) and kernel bypass APIs called OFED
verbs – InfiniBand and Ethernet. 10/20/40Gb/s InfiniBand and RoCE (based on the RDMA over
Converged Ethernet standard) over 10/40GigE are supported with OFED by Mellanox to enable
OEMs and System Integrators to meet the needs end users in the said markets.
- Virtual Protocol Interconnect allows Mellanox ConnectX and ConnectX-2 devices to run both InfiniBand and 10GigE traffic simultaneously on two ports
- Single software stack that operates across all available Mellanox InfiniBand and Ethernet devices and configurations such as mem-free, QDR/DDR/SDR, 10 /40 GigE, and PCI Express modes
- Support for HPC applications for scientific research, oil and gas exploration, car crash tests, bench marking etc. E.g., Fluent, LS-DYNA
- Support for Data Center applications such as Oracle 11g/10g RAC, IBM DB2, Financial services applications such as IBM WebSphere LLM, Red Hat MRG, NYSE Data Fabric
- Support for high-performance block storage applications utilizing RDMA benefits
- Drivers for InfiniBand, RoCE, L2 NIC, FCoE
- Access Layers and common verbs interface
- VPI (Virtual Protocol Interconnect)
- OSU MVAPICH and Open MPI
- IP-over-IB
- SDP
- SRP Initiator
- iSER Initiator*
- uDAPL
- RDS
- Subnet Manager (OpenSM)
- Installation, Administration and Diagnostics
- Tools
- Performance test suites
MLNX_OFED_LINUX v1.5.1
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.1-rhel4.8.iso
MD5SUM: 17e971164a95c507db30d3e17e9ab4ae
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL4.8-only CD Image)
Size: 518MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.1-rhel5.3.iso
MD5SUM: 65efa495697fe9a38319240d62a46a34
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL5.3-only CD Image)
Size: 467MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.1-rhel5.4.iso
MD5SUM: 6cc57b0effb2cad1d3555ed8e3f4007d
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL5.4-only CD Image)
Size: 539MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.1-rhel5.5.iso
MD5SUM: 0c56a8af780b711bd920da07c1bd5108
Release Date: June 6, 2010
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL5.5-only CD Image)
Size: 357MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.1-sles10sp3.iso
MD5SUM: 0549fd679ca6b006727a8a7f54640e3e
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (SLES10 SP1/SP2-only CD Image)
Size: 558MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.1-sles11.iso
MD5SUM: c03927c3677115e5be0d11a409897e28
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (SLES10 SP1/SP2-only CD Image)
Size: 471MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX v1.4.2
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.4-rhel5.5.iso
MD5SUM: 7e578a35cd8983a177ebb3669e74ac99
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL5.5-only CD Image)
Size: 286MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX v1.4
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.4-rhel4.iso
MD5SUM: f90876dc0dfdcb634b4e355a57bff0a4
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL4-only CD Image)
Size: 701MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.4-rhel5.2.iso
MD5SUM: a5a4d4aef57dc0d00a6ad1135e47a4b8
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL5.2-only CD Image)
Size: 411MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.4-rhel5.3.iso
MD5SUM: 069bc0cd26e17a1a666f2170f48a3da8
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL5.3-only CD Image)
Size: 360MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.4-sles10_ sp1_sp2.iso
MD5SUM: f3f40ee8c0cd29dde092a20cca07171b
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (SLES10 SP1/SP2-only CD Image)
Size: 568MB
MLNX_OFED_LINUX v1.3.1
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.3.1-rhel4.iso
MD5SUM: c81b4290b97b52ab31157166314b239d
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Size: 523MB - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.3.1-rhel5.iso
MD5SUM: d39f104c4190e26f6284c3541ef39fd6
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL5-only CD Image)
Size: 535MB - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.3.1-sles10.iso
MD5SUM: 150ad0822c561248650442601863510e
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (SLES10-only CD Image)
Size: 383MB - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.3.1-sles10_sp1_sp2.iso
MD5SUM: 50dd29d3d5dd1c7a2bab26ac22b647f2
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (SLES10 SP1/SP2-only CD Image)
Size: 465MB
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.3-rhel4.iso
MD5SUM: 3684081ba9234cfd2953f2c312e0cef8
Updated on May 22, 2008
(fix for MPI binaries by Intel compiler)
Size: 530MB - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.3-rhel5.iso
MD5SUM: 7af6ee93b9dc205b6b2116ab77a23cea
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (RHEL5-only CD Image)
Size: 423MB - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.3-sles10.iso
MD5SUM: f7863b21932efdb05a73869392703e4b
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (SLES10-only CD Image)
Size: 363MB - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.3-sles10sp1.iso
MD5SUM: 083a03d545aaf66c27b9f4e64ee7ecd1
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (SLES10 SP1-only CD Image)
Size: 355MB
- OFED 1.2 (Linux)
MLNX_OFED_LINUX v1.3
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