Nvidia BlueField-2 InfiniBand User Manual

NVIDIA BlueField-2 InfiniBand/Ethernet DPU User Guide 18
Feature Description
Protocol Standard Rate (Gb/s) Comments
(4
Lanes)
(2
Lanes)
HDR/HDR
100
IBTA Vol2
1.4
212.5 106.25
PAM4 256b/257b encoding
and RS-FEC
EDR
IBTA Vol2
1.3.1
103.12
5
51.562
5
NRZ 64b/66b encoding
FDR
IBTA Vol2
1.2
56.25 N/A NRZ 64b/66b encoding
Up to 200
Gigabit
Ethernet
BlueField-2 DPU complies with the following IEEE 802.3 standards:
200GbE / 100GbE / 50GbE / 40GbE / 25GbE / 10GbE
Protocol MAC Rate
IEEE802.3ck
200/100 Gigabit Ethernet
(Include ETC enhancement)
IEEE802.3cd
IEEE802.3bs
IEEE802.3cm
IEEE802.3cn
IEEE802.3cu
200/100 Gigabit Ethernet
(Include ETC enhancement)
IEEE 802.3bj
IEEE 802.3bm
100 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3by
Ethernet Consortium25
50/25 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3cb
2.5/5 Gigabit Ethernet
(For 2.5: support only 2.5 x1000BASE-
X)

Nvidia BlueField-2 InfiniBand Specifications

General

Processor	Arm Cortex-A72
Connectivity	InfiniBand, Ethernet
Security	Hardware Root of Trust, Secure Boot
Crypto Acceleration	Yes
Architecture	Arm
PCIe Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Security Acceleration	Yes
Network Acceleration	Yes
Network Interface	InfiniBand
Memory	16GB DDR4
Form Factor	PCIe
Product Type	DPU (Data Processing Unit)
Ethernet Speed	200Gbps
Storage	NVMe over Fabric support
Networking Features	RDMA, RoCE, SR-IOV
Cores	8x Arm A72 cores