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AMD Solarflare X4 Series Downloads and Support

AMD Solarflare™ X4 series Ethernet adapters are designed for high-performance electronic trading environments. Built for the speed of modern markets, AMD Solarflare Ethernet adapters enable ultra-low latency and real-time telemetry, empowering high-frequency trading, risk analytics, and financial data flows with precision, scale and confidence.

For more information refer to the AMD Solarflare™ Ethernet adapter documentation. Access additional resources on the AMD Solarflare Support Site.

Software and Downloads

Accelerate networking performance with AMD Solarflare™ Onload™ software. Onload software delivers low-latency, high-throughput networking without requiring application changes.

Onload also provides ef_vi. This is a low-level ultra-low latency networking API that offers the minimum possible latency in applications developed for XtremeScale adapters. For more information refer to the Onload User Guide and the ef_vi User Guide.

OpenOnload™
  • Open-source version of Onload software
  • Boosts network-intensive workloads (databases, load balancers, web servers)
  • Exceptional small packet performance for trading environments
  • Download Release Packages listed below

 

AMD Solarflare™ TCPDirect™ is an ultra-low latency networking stack, designed to deliver exceptional performance for latency-sensitive applications. It provides an API for developing highly accelerated network applications. It employs kernel bypass techniques similar to Onload, but achieves even lower latency.

For more information refer to the TCPDirect User Guide.

AMD Solarflare™ network drivers are available here. AMD recommends that you install and use the latest released version of the network driver.

Note: Linux (and Linux based OS distributions) already include a version of the AMD Solarflare network driver. This is known as the OS ‘in-tree’ driver. The in-tree driver supports normal networking operation but does not support more advanced or recent features available with the latest drivers.

Linux

AMD Solarflare™ firmware and utilities are available here. AMD recommends that you install and use the latest released version of firmware.

Linux