Nvidia BlueField BF1600 User Manual

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Feature Description
• IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
• IEEE 802.1Qau (QCN)
• Congestion Notification
• IEEE 802.1Qaz (ETS)
• IEEE 802.1Qbb (PFC)
• IEEE 802.1Qbg
• IEEE 1588v2
• Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)
On-board
Memory
• Two DDR4 SODIMM sockets - size is 16GB each (MBF1M636A-CSNAT and MBF1M616A-CSNAT)
• Two DDR4 SODIMM sockets - size is 8GB each (MBF1M656A-CSNAT and MBF1M646A-CSNAT)
• 2x 16GB eMMC NAND flash memory for software
• SPI Flash for NIC firmware
• SPI Flash for CPLD firmware
• EEPROM - Size 128Kbit
BlueField SoC The BlueField-2 SoC integrates eight 64-bit Armv8 A72 cores interconnected by a coherent mesh network, one DRAM controller, an RDMA intelligent network adapter
supporting up to 200Gb/s, an embedded PCIe switch with endpoint and root complex functionality, and up to 16 lanes of PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0.
Overlay
Networks
In order to better scale their networks, data center operators often create overlay networks that carry traffic from individual virtual machines over logical tunnels in
encapsulated formats such as NVGRE and VXLAN. While this solves network scalability issues, it hides the TCP packet from the hardware offloading engines, placing higher
loads on the host CPU. BlueField BF1600 Controller Card effectively addresses this by providing advanced NVGRE and VXLAN hardware offloading engines that encapsulate
and de-capsulate the overlay protocol.
RDMA and RDMA
overConverged
Ethernet (RoCE)
The BlueField BF1600 Controller Cards, utilizing IBTA RDMA (Remote Data Memory Access) and RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) technology, deliver low-latency and
high-performance over Ethernet networks. Leveraging data center bridging (DCB) capabilities as well as advanced congestion control hardware mechanisms, RoCE provides
efficient low-latency RDMA services over Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks.
NVIDIA
PeerDirect®
PeerDirect communication provides high-efficiency RDMA access by eliminating unnecessary internal data copies between components on the PCIe bus (for example, from
GPU to CPU), and therefore significantly reduces application run time. BlueField BF1600 Controller Card advanced acceleration technology enables higher cluster efficiency
and scalability to tens of thousands of nodes.
Quality of
Service (QoS)
Support for port-based Quality of Service enabling various application requirements for latency and SLA.

Nvidia BlueField BF1600 Specifications

General

Brand	Nvidia
Model	BlueField BF1600
Category	PCI Card
Language	English