NVIDIA BlueField-2 Ethernet DPU User Guide

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About This Manual

This user manual describes NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 Ethernet DPU (data processing unit). It provides details as to the interfaces of the board, specifications, required software and firmware for operating the board, and a step-by-step plan of how to bring up the BlueField-2 DPU.

Ordering Part Numbers

The tables below list the ordering part numbers (OPNs) for available BlueField-2 Ethernet DPUs in two form factors: Half-Height Half-Length (HHHL) DPUs and Full-Height Half-Length (FHHL) DPUs, respectively.

Half-Height Half-Length (HHHL) DPUs

NVIDIA SKU

OPN

Series/ Core Speed

Max Speed

No. of Ports

PCIe Support

Crypto

Secure Boot

1GbE OOB

On-boardDDR Memory

On-board eMMC Memory

Device ID

PSID

Lifecycle


900-9D206-0083-ST3

MBF2H332A-AECOT

P-Series/ 2.5GHz

25GbE

2xSFP56

Gen 4.0 x8




16GB

64GB

41686

MT_0000000541

Mass Production

900-9D206-0063-ST2

MBF2H332A-AEEOT

P-Series/ 2.5GHz

25GbE

2xSFP56

Gen 4.0 x8


-


16GB

64GB

41686

MT_0000000540

Mass Production

900-9D206-0053-SQ0

MBF2H332A-AENOT

P-Series/ 2.5GHz

25GbE

2xSFP56

Gen 4.0 x8

-

-


16GB

64GB

41686

MT_0000000539

Mass Production

Full-Height Half-Length (FHHL) DPUs

NVIDIA SKU

Legacy OPN

Series/ Core Speed

Max Speed

No. of Ports

PCIe Support

Crypto

Secure Boot

1GbE OOB

Integrated BMC

PPS IN/OUT

ExternalPower

On-boardDDR Memory

On-board eMMC Memory (b)

Device ID

PSID

Lifecycle


900-9D218-0083-ST2

MBF2H512C-AECOT

P-Series/ 2.5GHz

25GbE

2xSFP56

Gen 4.0 x8






-

16GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000724

Mass Production

900-9D218-0073-ST1

MBF2H512C-AESOT

P-Series/ 2.5GHz

25GbE

2xSFP56

Gen 4.0 x8

-





-

16GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000723

Mass Production

900-9D218-0073-ST4

MBF2H512C-AEUOT

P-Series/ 2.5GHz

25GbE

2xSFP56

Gen 4.0 x8

-





-

16GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000972

Mass Production

900-9D218-0083-ST4

MBF2H532C-AECOT

P-Series/ 2.5GHz

25GbE

2xSFP56

Gen 4.0 x8






-

32GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000765

Mass Production

900-9D218-0073-ST0

MBF2H532C-AESOT

P-Series/ 2.5GHz

25GbE

2xSFP56

Gen 4.0 x8

-





-

32GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000766

Mass Production

900-9D219-0086-ST1(a)

MBF2M516A-CECOT

E-Series/ 2.0GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16




-

-

-

16GB

64GB

41686

MT_0000000375

Mass Production

900-9D219-0066-ST2

MBF2M516A-CEEOT

E-Series/ 2.0GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16


-


-

-

-

16GB

64GB

41686

MT_0000000561

Mass Production

900-9D219-0056-SN1

MBF2M516A-CENOT

E-Series/ 2.0GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16

-

-


-

-

-

16GB

64GB

41686

MT_0000000560

Mass Production

900-9D208-0086-SQ0(a)

MBF2H516C-CECOT

P-Series/ 2.75GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16





-


16GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000729

Mass Production

900-9D208-0076-ST1

MBF2H516C-CESOT

P-Series/ 2.75GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16

-




-


16GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000738

Mass Production

900-9D208-0076-STA

MBF2H516C-CEUOT

P-Series/ 2.75GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16

-




-


16GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000973

Mass Production

900-9D208-0086-ST3(a)

MBF2M516C-CECOT

E-Series/ 2.0GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16






-

16GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000733

Mass Production

900-9D208-0076-ST5

MBF2M516C-CESOT

E-Series/ 2.0GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16

-





-

16GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000731

Mass Production

900-9D208-0086-ST2(a)

MBF2H536C-CECOT

P-Series/ 2.75GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16







32GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000768

Mass Production

900-9D208-0076-ST3

MBF2H536C-CESOT

P-Series/ 2.75GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16

-






32GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000000767

Mass Production

900-9D208-0076-STB

MBF2H536C-CEUOT

P-Series/ 2.75GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16

-






32GB

128GB

41686

MT_0000001008

Mass Production


Notes: (a)If your target application for this crypto-enabled card will utilize 100Gb/s or higher bandwidth, where a substantial part of the bandwidth will be allocated for IPsec traffic, please refer to the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs Product Release Notes document to learn about a potential bandwidth limitation. See Related Documents section for details on accessing the document.

(b) eMMC 128GB memory is effectively 40GB with high durability.

Legacy (End-of-Life) Ordering Part Numbers

NVIDIA SKU

Legacy OPN

Series/ Core Speed Max SpeedNo. of PortsPCIe Support

Crypto

Secure Boot

1GbE OOB

Integrated BMC

PPS IN/OUTExternalPower

On-boardDDR Memory

On-board eMMC Memory

Lifecycle

900-9D250-0048-ST0

MBF2M355A-VECOT

E-Series/ 2.0GHz

200GbE

1xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16




-

-

-

32GB

64GB

End of Life

900-9D250-0038-ST3

MBF2M355A-VESOT

E-Series/ 2.0GHz

200GbE

1xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16

-



-

-

-

32GB

64GB

End of Life

900-9D219-0006-ST0

MBF2H516A-CEEOT

P-Series/ 2.75GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x 16


-


-

-


16GB

64GB

End of Life

900-9D219-0056-ST2

MBF2H516A-CENOT

P-Series/ 2.75GHz

100GbE

2xQSFP56

Gen 4.0 x16

-

-


-

-


16GB

64GB

End of Life

Intended Audience

This manual is intended for the installer and user of these cards. The manual assumes basic familiarity with the Ethernet network and architecture specifications.

Technical Support

Customers who purchased NVIDIA products directly from NVIDIA are invited to contact us through the following methods:

Customers who purchased NVIDIA M-1 Global Support Services, please see your contract for details regarding Technical Support.Customers who purchased NVIDIA products through an NVIDIA-approved reseller should first seek assistance through their reseller.

Related Documentation


IEEE Std 802.3 Specification

IEEE Ethernet specification at http://standards.ieee.org

PCI Express Specifications

Industry Standard PCI Express Base and Card Electromechanical Specifications at https://pcisig.com/specifications

NVIDIA LinkX Interconnect Solutions

LinkX Ethernet cables and transceivers are designed to maximize the performance of High-Performance Computing networks, requiring high-bandwidth, low-latency connections between compute nodes and switch nodes. NVIDIA offers one of the industry’s broadest portfolio of 40GbE, 56GbE, 100GbE, 200GbE and 400GbE cables, including Direct Attach Copper cables (DACs), copper splitter cables, Active Optical Cables (AOCs) and transceivers in a wide range of lengths from 0.5m to 10km. In addition to meeting Ethernet standards, NVIDIA tests every product in an end-to-end environment ensuring a Bit Error Rate of less than 1E-15 . Read more at LinkX Cables and Transceivers.

BlueField DPU OS Manual

NVIDIA® BlueField® DPU operating system (OS) is a reference Linux distribution based on the Ubuntu Server distribution extended to include DOCA runtime libraries, the DOCA Runtime stack for Arm and a Linux kernel that supports various accelerations for storage, networking, and security. As such, customers can run any Linux-based applications in the BlueField software environment seamlessly. The BlueField DPU OS manual is available at: BlueField DPU BSP 4.2.0.

DOCA SDK Software Documentation

The NVIDIA DOCA™ SDK enables developers to rapidly create applications and services on top of NVIDIA® BlueField® data processing units (DPUs), leveraging industry-standard APIs. With DOCA, developers can deliver breakthrough networking, security, and storage performance by harnessing the power of NVIDIA's DPUs. NVIDIA DOCA SDK software available at https://docs.nvidia.com/doca/sdk.

BlueField BMC SW Manual

BMC software enables control and management of the baseboard management controller’s (BMC) hardware components. The BlueField-2 BMC Software UM is available at: BlueField BMC Software UM.

NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs Product Release Notes

Describes the hardware release notes for the BlueField-2 DPUs. To access the document, log into NVOnline or contact your NVIDIA representative.

Document Conventions

When discussing memory sizes, GB and GBytes are used in this document to mean size in gigabytes. The use of Gb or Gbits indicates the size in giga-bits. In this document, PCIe is used to mean PCI Express.

Revision History

A list of the changes made to this document is provided in Document Revision History.

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