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 RDIMM DDR4 memory, two PCIe x16 slots, and an NVMe-ready midplane for SSD connectivity.
Products specifications
| Attribute name |
Attribute value |
|
Built-in processor
|
Yes |
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PCI Express x16 slots
|
2 |
|
Number of DIMM slots
|
4 |
|
Number of redundant power supplies installed
|
1 |
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Chassis type
|
Rack (2U) |
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Product color
|
Black, Gray |
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Power supply
|
850 W |
|
Number of storage drives supported
|
16 |
|
Storage drive sizes supported
|
2.5" |
|
PCI Express slots version
|
3.0 |
