Mellanox, MBE1100A-BN1, BlueField 1U Reference Platform, BlueField E-Series, Crypto Disabled, a Network Appliance Platform
Features with all optional accessories:
- Powerful reference platform in a convenient 1U or 2U 19" box
- Enables evaluation, development, and running of software solutions in real-world environments
- Easy to use
- 2U reference platform
- Storage controller platform
- NVMe-ready for storage applications
- Support for up to sixteen 2.5" SSD bays
- Option to add GPU cards for Machine
- Learning programmability
- 1U reference platform
- Network appliance for high-performance cloud SW solutions
- Bluefield SoC
- 16 Arm cores Onboard
- 32-lane PCIe switch
- Two 100Gb/s Virtual Protocol Interconnect® network interfaces (InfiniBand and Ethernet)
- PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0 support
- Integrated BMC
- 32GB e mmC Flash memory for software
- Leverages the processing power of Arm® cores for storage applications such as All-Flash Arrays using NVMe-oF, Ceph, Lustre, iSCSI/TCP offload, Flash Translation Layer, RAID/Erasure coding, data compression/decompression, and deduplication.
- In high-performance storage arrays, BlueField serves as the system's main CPU, handling storage controller tasks and traffic termination.
- Provides up to 16 front-mounted 2.5" disk drive bays that are routed to an NVMe-ready midplane within the enclosure. The system can be configured as a storage JBOF with 16 drives using PCIe Gen 3.0 x2, or 8 drives with PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 lanes.
Powerful & Flexible Reference Platform for a Wide Range of Applications Including Storage, Networking, and Machine Learning. Today's network technologies drive OEMs to seek innovative, scalable, and cost-effective designs for dealing with the exponential growth of data. The Mellanox BlueField Reference Platform provides a multi-purpose fully-programmable hardware environment for evaluation, development, and running of software solutions, reducing time-to-market and increasing product development and runtime efficiency. The reference platform delivers all the features of the BlueField SoC in convenient form factors, making it ideal for a range of software solutions for the most demanding markets. Features include two 100Gb/s Ethernet or InfiniBand interfaces, a 16-core BlueField processor, up to 512GB of RDI mm DDR4 memory, two PCIe x16 slots, and an NVMe-ready midplane for SSD connectivity.
Bluefield Platform for Storage Appliances
Today's fast storage technologies drive storage OEMs to seek innovative, scalable, and cost-effective designs for their applications. Powered by the BlueField SoC, the BlueField 2U Reference Platform offers a unique combination of Onboard capabilities and NVMe-readiness, creating an ideal environment for storage appliance development.
BlueField Platform for Machine Learning
The BlueField 2U Reference Platform supports connectivity of up to 2 GPUs via its PCIe x16 Gen 3.0 interface, providing cost-effective and integrative solutions for Machine Learning appliances. By utilizing RDMA and RoCE technology, the BlueField network controller data path hardware delivers low latency and high throughput with near-zero CPU cycles. The platform also offers GPUDirect® RDMA technology, enabling the most efficient data exchange between GPUs and with the Mellanox high speed interconnect, optimizing real-time analytics and data insights.