Interfaces Detailed Description; Dpu Ic; Networking Ports Interface; Networking Ports Leds Interface - Nvidia BlueField-2 InfiniBand/VPI DPU User Manual

Interfaces Detailed Description

DPU IC

NVIDIA® BlueField®-2
of 64-bit Arm v8 A72
Express switch into a single chip. The powerful DPU IC architecture includes an Armv8 multicore
processor array and enables customers to develop sophisticated applications and highly
differentiated feature sets. leverages the rich Arm software ecosystem and introduces the ability to
offload the x86 software stack.
At the heart BlueField-2, the ConnectX-6 Dx network offload controller with RDMA and RDMA over
Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology delivers cutting-edge performance for networking and
storage applications such as NVMe over
switch with programmable access lists (ACLs), transport offloads, and stateless encaps/decaps of
NVGRE, VXLAN, and MPLS overlay protocols.
Encryption

Applies to Crypto enabled OPNs.
DPU addresses the concerns of modern data centers by combining hardware encryption accelerators
with embedded software and fully integrated advanced network capabilities, making it an ideal
platform for developing proprietary security applications. It enables a distributed security
architecture by isolating and protecting each individual workload and providing flexible control and
visibility at the server and workload level, controlling risk at the server access layer. builds security
into the DNA of the data center and enables prevention, detection, and response to potential
threats in real-time. The DPU can deliver powerful functionality, including encryption of data-in-
motion, bare-metal provisioning, a stateful L4 firewall, and more.

Networking Ports Interface

The network ports of the DPU are compliant with the InfiniBand and the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
standards listed
connectors. By default, the port cages of this group of OPNs are set to operate in QSFP28 mode
(default card firmware setting). BlueField-2 DPUs support copper/optic and SR4 modules only.

Networking Ports LEDs Interface

There is one bicolor (Yellow and Green) I/O LED per port to indicate speed and link status.
Beacon command for locating the
adapter card
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DPU is a family of advanced DPU IC solutions that integrate a coherent mesh
cores, an NVIDIA® ConnectX®-6
Fabrics. Advanced features include an embedded virtual
in Features and Benefits. Traffic is transmitted through the cards' QSFP56
State
1Hz blinking Yellow
Dx network adapter front-end, and a PCI
Bi-Color LED (Yellow/Green)
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