Introduction
The NVIDIA® BlueField®-3 data processing unit (DPU) Controller is the 3rd-generation
data center infrastructure-on-a-chip that enables organizations to build software-defined,
hardware-accelerated IT infrastructures from cloud to core data center to edge. With
200Gb/s Ethernet or NDR200 200Gb/s InfiniBand network connectivity, BlueField-3 DPU
Controller offloads, accelerates, and isolates software-defined networking, storage,
security, and management functions in ways that profoundly improve data center
performance, efficiency, and security. Providing powerful computing, and a broad range
of programmable acceleration engines in the I/O path, BlueField-3 is perfectly positioned
to address the infrastructure needs of the most demanding applications, while delivering
full software backward compatibility through the NVIDIA DOCA™ software framework.
BlueField-3 DPU Controllers are highly optimized for NVMe storage systems, Network
Functions Virtualization (NFV), Cloud and Machine Learning workloads. BlueField-3
integrates all the discrete components of a storage system appliance into a single chip
making it the premier solution for building Just-a-Bunch-Of-Flash (JBOF) systems, All-
Flash-Array and storage appliances for NVMe over Fabrics. With an integrated NVMe-oF
and NVMe/TCP offload accelerator, the BlueField-3 DPU Controller has a superior
performance advantage over existing JBOF systems, significantly reducing storage
transaction latency, while increasing IOPs (I/O operations per second).
System Requirements
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In PCIe x16 Configuration
PCIe Gen 5.0 (32GT/s) through x16 edge connector.
In PCIe x16 Extension Option - Switch DSP (Data Stream Port)
PCIe Gen 5.0 SERDES @32GT/s through edge connector
PCIe Gen 5.0 SERDES @32GT/s through PCIe Auxiliary Connection Card
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The maximum power consumption is up to 150W and is split between the two
power sources as follows:
Up to 66W from the PCIe golden fingers (12V)
The rest of the consumed power is drawn from a supplementary 8-pin ATX
power supply connector
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