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 |
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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 |