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Abstract
The ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 QSFP112 Adapters are an advanced compute platform that enables software-defined, hardware-accelerated IT infrastructures. With up to 16 Arm cores and 400Gb/s of Ethernet or NDR InfiniBand network connectivity, BlueField-3 data processing units (DPUs) and SuperNICs offload, accelerate, and isolate software-defined networking, storage, security, and management functions.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the BlueField-3 adapters and their key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the BlueField-3 adapters and consider their use in IT solutions.
Change History
Changes in the September 27, 2024 update:
- Added the Seller Training Courses section
Introduction
NVIDIA BlueField-3 is an advanced compute platform that enables software-defined, hardware-accelerated IT infrastructures. BlueField-3 offloads, accelerates, and isolates software-defined networking, storage, security, and management functions.
Two BlueField-3 adapters are offered in the ThinkSystem portfolio:
- Model B3220, a Data processing unit (DPU) adapter, with 16 Arm cores, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and two ports of 200Gb/s Ethernet or NDR200 InfiniBand network connectivity
- Model B3140H, a SuperNIC, with 8 Arm cores,16GB of DDR5 memory, and one port of 400Gb/s Ethernet or NDR InfiniBand network connectivity
Did you know?
Powered by NVIDIA DOCA™, BlueField-3 enables full data center programmability through open APIs and an optimized developer experience. Top ISV providers and server makers are using DOCA for accelerating innovation and achieving better business outcomes with BlueField DPUs. Paired with NVIDIA GPUs, BlueField-3 secures and accelerates cloud-native computing platforms.
Compared to the BlueField-2 adapter, the BlueField-3 provides 4X more compute power, up to 4X faster crypto acceleration, 2X faster storage processing, and 4X more memory bandwidth, all while delivering full backward compatibility through the NVIDIA DOCA™ software framework.
Part number information
The following table shows the part number for the adapter and auxiliary power cable. The power cable is required to provide the power needed by the adapter.
The part number includes the following:
- One adapter with a full-height (3U) adapter bracket
- Documentation
Supported transceivers and cables
The following table lists the supported transceivers.
The following table lists the supported fiber optic cables and Active Optical Cables.
The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables.
Workloads
The BlueField-3 adapters are suitable for the following workload types:
- Cloud Networking: Cloud overlay, SDN acceleration, NAT, load balancer, NFV, video streaming
- Storage: NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), NVMe/ TCP™, elastic storage, hyper converged infrastructure (HCI)
- Security: Distributed next- generation firewall, IDS/ IPS, root of trust, micro- segmentation, DDOS prevention
- HPC / AI: Cloud-native supercomputing, multi-tenancy and security, communication accelerations
- Telco and Edge: Cloud RAN, virtualized edge gateways, VNF acceleration, edge microservers
Technical specifications
The BlueField-3 adapters have the following technical specifications:
Adapter specifications
- Ports:
- B3220 adapter: 2 ports using 2x QSFP112 cages, each providing 200Gb/s Ethernet or NDR200 InfiniBand connectivity
- B3140H adapter: 1 port with a QSFP112 cage, providing 400Gb/s Ethernet or NDR InfiniBand connectivity
- Based on a ConnectX-7 networking subsystem
- PCIe Gen5 x16 host interface
- Support for an Auxiliary Card which provides an additional x16 host connection for Sockets Direct (SharedIO) support ((B3220 adapter only)
- Maximum power consumption:
- B3220 adapter: 150W
- B3140H adapter: 75W
Compute and Memory
- Arm CPU cores
- B3220 adapter: 16 Arm v8.2+ A78 Hercules cores (64-bit)
- B3140H adapter: 8 Arm v8.2+ A78 Hercules cores (64-bit)
- 8MB L2 cache
- 16MB LLC system cache
- Programmable Datapath Accelerator
- Programmability through DOCA
- Heavy multi-threading applications acceleration
- DDR DIMM support
- Dual DDR5 5600MT/s DRAM controllers
- Onboard memory:
- B3220 adapter: 32GB DDR5
- B3140H adapter: 16GB DDR5
- ECC error protection support
Networking protocol support
- InfiniBand: IBTA v1.5(a) (Auto-Negotiation):
- (B3140H adapter only) NDR (4 lanes x 100Gb/s per lane)
- NDR200 (2 lanes x 100Gb/s per lane)
- HDR (50Gb/s per lane)
- HDR100 (2 lane x 50Gb/s per lane)
- EDR (25Gb/s per lane)
- FDR (14.0625Gb/s per lane)
- 1X/2X/4X SDR (2.5Gb/s per lane).
- Ethernet:
- (B3140H adapter only) 400GAUI-4 C2M, 400GBASE-CR4
- 200GAUI-2 C2M, 200GAUI-4 C2M, 200GBASE-CR4
- 100GAUI-2 C2M, 100GAUI-1 C2M, 100GBASE-CR4, 100GBASE-CR2, 100GBASE-CR1
- 50GAUI-2 C2M, 50GAUI-1 C2M, 50GBASE-CR, 50GBASE-R2
- 40GBASE-CR4, 40GBASE-R2
- 25GBASE-R
- 10GBASE-R, 10GBASE-CX4
- 1000BASE-CX, CAUI-4 C2M, 25GAUI C2M, XLAUI C2M , XLPPI, SFI
Hardware Accelerations
- Security
- Platform security
- Secure boot with hardware root-of-trust (RoT)
- Secure firmware update
- On-board flash encryption
- Device attestation
- Functional isolation layer
- Regular expression (RegEx) matching processor
- IPsec/TLS/MACSec 128/256-bit data-in-motion encryption
- PSP security protocol (PSP)
- AES-GCM 128/256bit key
- AES-XTS 256/512bit data-at-rest encryption
- Connection tracking for statefull firewall
- Public key accelerator (PKA)
- True random number generator (TRNG)
- Storage
- BlueField SNAP - Elastic block storage - NVMe and VirtIO-blk
- NVMe-oF and NVMe/TCP acceleration
- Decompression engine
- Erasure coding for RAID implementation
- Networking
- RoCE, Zero Touch RoCE
- ASAP² - Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing® for SDN and VNF acceleration
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- VirtIO acceleration
- Overlay network acceleration
- VXLAN, Geneve, NVGRE
- Programmable flexible parser: user-defined classification
- Connection tracking (L4 firewall)
- Flow mirroring, sampling and statistics
- Header rewrite
- Hierarchical QoS
- Stateless TCP offloads
- HPC/AI Accelerations
- HPC / AI All-to-All engine
- NVIDIA GPUDirect
- NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS)
- HPC MPI Tag Matching
Additional features
- Advanced Timing and Synchronization
- IEEE 1588v2 (any profile)
- G.8273.2 Class C
- PTP hardware clock (PHC)
- Line rate hardware timestamp
- SyncE
- G.8262.1 (eEEC)
- Configurable PPS In and PPS Out
- Time triggered scheduling
- Time-based SDN acceleration
- Boot Options
- Secure boot (RSA authenticated)
- Remote boot over Ethernet
- Remote boot over iSCSI
- PXE and UEFI
- Management
- 1GbE out-of-band management port via the RJ45 port (can be disabled)
- In-band management via the two network ports (can be disabled)
- NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus, and MCTP over PCIe
- IPMI management interface
- PLDM for Monitor and Control DSP0248
- PLDM for Firmware Update DSP026
- I2C interface for device control and configuration
- SPI interface to flash
- eMMC memory controller
- UART via the onboard 20-pin NCSI/UART connector
- USB via an onboard 4-pin connector
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
Operating system support
The adapter supports the operating systems listed in the following table.
Tip: This table is automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
Regulatory approvals
The BlueField-3 adapters have the following hardware certifications:
- Safety: CB / cTUVus / CE
- EMC: CE / FCC / VCCI / ICES / RCM
- RoHS compliant
Physical specifications
The ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 B3140H VPI QSFP112 1P 400G PCIe Gen5 x16 Adapter is a HHHL adapter and has the following physical specifications:
- Length: 168 mm (6.6 inches)
- Height: 69 mm (2.7 inches)
The ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 B3220 VPI QSFP112 2P 200G PCIe Gen5 x16 Adapter is a FHHL adapter and has the following physical specifications:
- Length: 168 mm (6.6 inches)
- Height: 111 mm (4.4 inches)
Operating environment
The BlueField-3 adapters are supported in the following environment:
- Temperature:
- Operating: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)
- Storage: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)
- Humidity:
- Operating: 10% to 85%
- Storage: 10% to 90%
Warranty
One year limited warranty. When installed in a Lenovo server, this adapter assumes the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrades.
Seller Training Courses
The following sales training courses are offered for employees and partners (login required). Courses are listed in date order.
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NVIDIA BlueField DPU Overview
2024-09-26 | 25 minutes | Employees and Partners
DetailsNVIDIA BlueField DPU OverviewThis course equips Lenovo and partner technical sellers with the knowledge to effectively communicate the value of the BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU). You'll gain an in-depth overview of the DPU’s capabilities, enabling you to confidently showcase its key advantages and benefits to clients.
Published: 2024-09-26
In this training, you will explore the following key topics:
• NVIDIA DPU: Why It Matters
• Portfolio
• HW Description
• Performance
• Modes of Operation
• Programmability
• Spectri-X and The BlueField-3 SuperNIC
• PCIe and Drivers
• Troubleshooting
Length: 25 minutesCourse code: DAINVD203Start the training:
Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning -
Introduction to ConnectX Network Interface Cards
2024-09-26 | 5 minutes | Employees and Partners
DetailsIntroduction to ConnectX Network Interface CardsThis course provides Lenovo and partner technical sellers with the expertise to effectively communicate the available ConnectX Network Interface Cards (NICs) and their benefits, empowering you to confidently highlight their key advantages to clients.
Published: 2024-09-26
Length: 5 minutesCourse code: DAINVD202Start the training:
Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
Related information
For more information, refer to these documents:
- ServerProven compatibility
https://serverproven.lenovo.com/ - NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units product page
https://www.nvidia.com/dpu - NVIDIA DOCA
https://developer.nvidia.com/networking/doca - NVIDIA BlueField-3 User Guide:
https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/BlueField3DPU - NVIDIA BlueField-3 Software User Guide
https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/BlueFieldDPUOSLatest
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Full Change History
Changes in the September 27, 2024 update:
- Added the Seller Training Courses section
Changes in the July 10, 2024 update:
- Updated the tables of supported transceivers and cables - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the November 3, 2023 update:
- Added OS support information - Operating system support section
Changes in the September 15, 2023 update:
- Withdrawn cables are now hidden; click Show Withdrawn Products to view them - Supported transceivers and cables section
First published: September 5, 2023
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