Nvidia BlueField-2 InfiniBand User Manual

NVIDIA BlueField-2 InfiniBand/Ethernet DPU User Guide 26
2. When logging into the DPU for the first time after installing the BFB, you must
change the default password.
3. To check the current running BFB:
Updating BlueField BFB Image
The BlueField BFB image includes all the DOCA packages.
1. Installing a new BFB on the DPU is performed using the bfb-install utility that is
included in the RShim tool.
Expected output example:
WARNING: Your password has expired.
You must change your password now and login again!
Changing password for ubuntu.
Current password:
New password:
dpu# sudo cat /etc/mlnx-release
Warning
These instructions are tailored for installing the BlueField BFB image
on the default Ubuntu OS. To install it on other OSs, please contact
NVIDIA Support.
# bfb-install --bfb <BFB-image>.bfb --rshim rshim0
Pushing bfb
Collecting BlueField booting status. Press Ctrl+C to stop…

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