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 |
| PCI Express x16 slots | 2 |
| Number of DIMM slots | 4 |
| Number of redundant power supplies installed | 1 |
| Chassis type | Rack (2U) |
| Product color | Black, Gray |
| Power supply | 850 W |
| Number of storage drives supported | 16 |
| Storage drive sizes supported | 2.5" |
| PCI Express slots version | 3.0 |