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About This Manual
The NVIDIA® BlueField® networking platform ignites unprecedented innovation for modern data
centers and supercomputing clusters. With its robust compute power and integrated software-
defined hardware accelerators for networking, storage, and security, BlueField creates a secure and
accelerated infrastructure for any workload in any environment, ushering in a new era of
accelerated computing and AI.
This User Manual describes NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs (Data Processing Unit) and SuperNICs. 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-3 DPUs and
SuperNICs.
Ordering Part Numbers
The tables below list the ordering part numbers (OPNs) for available BlueField-3 cards in Full-Height
Half-Length (FHHL) and Half-Height Half-Length (HHHL) form factors.
The Device ID of all DPUs is 41692. All DPUs/SuperNICs are shipped with a tall bracket.
BlueField-3 DPUs
Mode
NVID
Series
l and
IA
/
Form
OPN
Cores
Facto
r
B3240
900-9D
P-
Dual-
3B6-00
Series /
Slot
CN-AB0
16 Arm-
FHHL
Cores
900-9D
P-
3B6-00
Series /
SN-AB0
16 Arm-
Cores
B3220
900-9D
P-
Single-
3B6-00
Series /
Slot
CV-AA0
16 Arm-
FHHL
cores
Data
No.
PCIe
Transm
of
Supp
ission
Port
ort
Rate
s
InfiniBan
2-
PCIe
d: NDR
Ports
Gen
400Gb/s
QSFP1
5.0
(Default)
12
x16
Ethernet
: 400GbE
InfiniBan
2-
PCIe
d: NDR
Ports
Gen
400Gb/s
QSFP1
5.0
(Default)
12
x16
Ethernet
: 400GbE
InfiniBan
2-
PCIe
d:
Ports
Gen
NDR200
QSFP1
5.0
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12
x16
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: 200GbE
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Mass
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