Mellanox Shipping BlueField SoC Platforms and SmartNIC Adapters

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced the first shipments of its BlueField system-on-chip (SoC) platforms and SmartNIC adapters to major data center, hyperscale and OEM customers.

 BlueField dual-port 100Gb/s SoC is for cloud, Web 2.0, big data, storage, enterprise, high-performance computing, and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) applications.

BlueField SmartNIC

BlueField sets NVMe-over-Fabrics performance records, demonstrating seven and a half million IO/s during initial testing, with zero CPU utilization. Furthermore, it delivers under 3μs of NVMe latency to enable less than 5μs of additional latency for end to end access to remote NVMe device over a local NVMe device. BlueField’s NVMe over Fabrics advanced hardware acceleration offload guarantees performance with no CPU utilization, thereby improving system TCO. In addition, it delivers up to close 400Gb/s of RDMA bidirectional traffic bandwidth over dual 100Gb/s ports.

“We are excited to ship BlueField systems and SmartNIC adapters to our major customers and partners, enabling them to build the next generation of storage, cloud, security and other platforms and to gain a competitive advantage,” said Yael Shenhav, VP, products, Mellanox. “BlueField products achieve new performance records, delivering industry-leading NVMe over Fabrics and networking throughput. We are proud of our world-class team for delivering these innovative products, designed to meet the ever growing needs of current and future data centers.“

The BlueField family of products is an integrated SoC optimized for NVMe storage systems, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), security systems, and embedded appliances. BlueField dual port 100Gb/s SoC solutions combine the company’s ConnectX-5 network acceleration technology with an array of performance 64-bit ARM A72 processor cores and a PCIe Gen3 and Gen4 switch.

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