About This Manual
This User Manual describes NVIDIA® BlueField®-3 BF3220SH DPU Controller cards. It provides details as to the interfaces of the board, specifications, required software and firmware for operating the card, hardware installation, driver installation and bring-up instructions.
Ordering Part Numbers
The below table provides the ordering part numbers (OPN) for the available BlueField BF3220SH DPU Controllers.
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Model |
NVIDIA SKU |
Heatsink |
Lifecycle |
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B3220SH |
900-9D3C6-00CV-GA0 |
NVIDIA BlueField-3 B3220SH E-Series No heatsink FHHL Storage Controller, 200GbE (default mode) / NDR200 IB, Dual-port QSFP112, PCIe Gen5.0 x16 with x16 PCIe extension option, 16 Arm cores, 48GB on-board DDR, integrated BMC, Crypto Enabled, Secure Boot |
No Heatsink |
Mass Production |
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900-9D3C6-00CV-DA0 |
NVIDIA BlueField-3 B3220SH E-Series FHHL Storage Controller, 200GbE (default mode) / NDR200 IB, Dual-port QSFP112, PCIe Gen5.0 x16 with x16 PCIe extension option, 16 Arm cores, 48GB on-board DDR, integrated BMC, Crypto Enabled, Secure Boot |
✔ |
Mass Production |
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900-9D3C6-00SV-DA0 |
NVIDIA BlueField-3 B3220SH E-Series FHHL Storage Controller, 200GbE (default mode) / NDR200 IB, Dual-port QSFP112, PCIe Gen5.0 x16 with x16 PCIe extension option, 16 Arm cores, 48GB on-board DDR, integrated BMC, Crypto Disabled, Tall Bracke |
✔ |
Mass Production |
Intended Audience
This manual is intended for the installer and user of these cards. The manual assumes basic familiarity with InfiniBand/Ethernet network and architecture specifications.
Technical Support
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Related Documentation
Related Documentation
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InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) InfiniBand® specification Release 1.3.1, November 2, 2016 and Vol. 2, Release 1.4 , and Vol 2 - Release 1.5. |
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IEEE Ethernet specification. |
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Industry Standard PCI Express Base and Card Electromechanical Specifications. |
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The NVIDIA® LinkX® product family of cables and transceivers provide the industry’s broadest portfolio of QDR/FDR10 (40Gb/s), FDR (56Gb/s), EDR/HDR100 (100Gb/s), HDR (200Gb/s) and NDR (400Gb/s) cables, including Direct Attach Copper cables (DACs), copper splitter cables, Active Optical Cables (AOCs) and transceivers in a wide range of lengths from 0.5m to 10km. In addition to meeting IBTA standards, NVIDIA tests every product in an end-to-end environment ensuring a Bit Error Rate of less than 1E-15. |
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This guide provides product release notes as well as information on the BSP and how to develop and/or customize applications, system software, and file system images for the BlueField platform. |
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NVIDIA DOCA SDK software. |
Document Conventions
When discussing memory sizes, GB and GBytes are used in this document to mean size in giga Bytes. The use of Gb or Gbits (small b) indicates size in giga bits. In this document PCIe is used to mean PCI Express.
Revision History
A list of the changes made to this document are provided in Document Revision History.