Nvidia BlueField BF1600 User Manual

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Feature Description
Storage
Acceleration
A consolidated compute and storage network achieves significant cost-performance advantages over multi-fabric networks. Standard block and file access protocols can
leverage RDMA for high-performance storage access.
• NVMe over Fabric offloads for the target machine
• T10-DIF Signature Handover
BlueField-2 SmartNIC may operate as a co-processor offloading specific storage tasks from the host, isolating part of the storage media from the host, or enabling
abstraction of software-defined storage logic
using the BlueField-2 Arm cores. On the storage initiator side, BlueField-2 SmartNIC can prove an efficient solution for hyper-converged systems to enable the host CPU to
focus
on compute while all the storage interface is handled through the Arm cores.
High-
PerformanceAcc
elerations
Tag Matching and Rendezvous Offloads
Adaptive Routing on Reliable Transport
Burst Buffer Offloads for Background Checkpointing
GPU Direct The latest advancement in GPU-GPU communications is GPUDirect RDMA. This new technology provides a direct P2P (Peer-to-Peer) data path between the GPU Memory
directly to/from the NVIDIA HCA devices. This provides a significant decrease in GPU-GPU communication latency and completely offloads the CPU, removing it from all
GPU-GPU communications across the network. BlueField BF1600 Controller Card uses high-speed DMA transfers to copy data between P2P devices resulting in more efficient
system applications.
Security
Accelerators
A consolidated compute and network solution based on BlueField Controller Card achieves significant advantages over a centralized security server solution. Standard
encryption protocols and security applications can leverage BlueField compute capabilities and network offloads for security application solutions such as:
• Connection Tracking
• Statefull firewall
a. Refer to BlueField Software and Firmware release notes for availability of PCIe Gen 4.0 capabilities
Operating Systems/Distributions
The BlueField® BF1600 Controller Card supports the following operating systems:
BlueField Software
OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)

Nvidia BlueField BF1600 Specifications

General

Brand	Nvidia
Model	BlueField BF1600
Category	PCI Card
Language	English