Which driver type must be installed for BlueField and ConnectX?
Why C is the answer
DOCA
BlueField and ConnectX devices need DOCA drivers, in addition to the GPU drivers.
In detail
- NVIDIA lists installing GPU and DOCA drivers.
- GPU drivers are separate.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A host installs DOCA drivers for its BlueField and ConnectX cards.
See it in different ways
flowchart TD A["Physical layer"] --> B["MIG: GPU instances"] A --> C["BlueField: network platform"]
mindmap
root((BCM))
Head node
High availability
cmsh
Category
Shared settings
Software image
Node OS
Workloads
Slurm
Enroot and Pyxisflowchart TD
Q{"Which device?"}
Q -->|"GPU"| A0["GPU driver"]
Q -->|"BlueField or ConnectX"| A1["DOCA"]Key point: BlueField and ConnectX use DOCA drivers.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Nouveau
- That is a GPU driver.
- B. TWAIN
- That is for scanners.
- D. WDDM
- That is a Windows driver model.