Nvidia High Performance Ethernet Smart Nic - PCI Express 4.0 x16 - 12.50 GB/s Data Transfer Rate - 2 Port(s) - Optical Fiber - Tall Bracket Height - 100GBase-X - QSFP56 - Plug-in Card - MBF2H516A-CEEOT

Nvidia High Performance Ethernet Smart Nic - PCI Express 4.0 x16 - 12.50 GB/s Data Transfer Rate - 2 Port(s) - Optical Fiber - Tall Bracket Height - 100GBase-X - QSFP56 - Plug-in Card

Nvidia ® Mellanox® BlueField®-2 Smart Nic delivers advanced functionality, unmatched performance And agility For today's most demanding workloads. By combining The industry leading ConnectX®-6 Dx network Adapter With an array of Arm® cores, BlueField-2 delivers a perfect blend of hardware And Software accelerations. BlueField-2 brings agile And high performance solutions For security, machine learning, cloud, edge computing And storage applications while reducing total cost of ownership.

BlueField-2 Smart Nic features The second generation BlueField-2 Data Processing Unit (DPU)-an innovative And high-performance programmable networking engine. The DPU integrates an array of eight powerful 64-bit Armv8 A72 cores interconnected by a coherent mesh With a DDR4 memory controller And a Dual Port Ethernet network controller.

BlueField-2 Smart Nic supports dual QSFP56 ports at link speeds of 10/25/50/100 GbE or a single port of 200 GbE, a 1 GbE out-of-band management port For The Arm subsystem, And includes an integrated 16-lane PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0 switch

BlueField-2 Smart Nic complete portfolio includes a variety of form factors including HHHL (half height, half length), FHHL (full height, half length), And Open Compute Project Spec 3.0 (OCP 3.0 Small Form Factor).

At The heart of BlueField-2 Smart Nic Is The industry-leading ConnectX-6 Dx network Adapter With unprecedented built-in hardware functionality, performance And resiliency. BlueField-2 hardware accelerations include advanced RDMA/RoCE capabilities as well as innovative cryptography, storage And networking accelerations. Relying on these built-in offloads, The BlueField-2 powerful array of Arm cores can be programmed For sophisticated custom accelerations And control path manipulations. BlueField-2 also benefits from The rich Arm ecosystem To deliver complete solutions To Cloud operators And service providers.

Key Applications

• Virtualized And bare metal Cloud services
• NVMe storage virtualization
• Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Security applications such as DDoS And Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
• Microservers built For edge computing

Portfolio

• Dual ports of 10/25/50/100 GbE or a single port of 200 GbE
• 8GB/16GB on-board DDR4 memory
• Various form factors: HHHL, FHHL And OCP 3.0 SFF

Key Features

• Best-in-class hardware offloads With Arm processing power, including:
• ASAP2 - Accelerated Switch And Packet Processing®
• NVMe SNAP™ storage emulation
• IPsec/TLS data-in-motion
• AES-XTS data-at-rest
• Regular expression (RegEx) And DPI accelerations
• SHA 256-bit hardware acceleration
• Hardware Root of Trust (RoT)
• 1 GbE out-of-band management port