Mellanox, MBF1L516B-CSNAT, BF1500 BlueField Controller Card, Dual Port 100Gb/s QSFP28
Features:
- Can be used as a GPU controller card for Machine Learning systems
- BF1500 supports up to 16 lanes PCIe Gen3.0/4.0 and BF1600 supports up to 32 PCIe Gen3.0/4.0 lanes.
- The BF1500 must be connected through a PCIe switch to SSD devices.
- The small form factor of the cards allows customers to install multiple BlueField Controller Card in a single system to support a larger number of SSDs as well as a high-availability storage architecture
- Two QSFP ports supporting: 10/25/40/50/100 GbE and EDR/FDR InfiniBand speeds
- Integrated BlueField SoC
- SPI flash for NIC firmware
- 16GB e mmC flash memory for software
- FH3/4L or FHHL standard PCIe Gen3.0/4.0x16
- Increases ROI by leveraging the NVMe-oF accelerator to maximize performance
- Reduces TCO by replacing both CPU and adapter with a single BlueField Dual Port 100Gb/s Controller Card
The Mellanox BF1500 BlueField Dual Port 100Gb/s Controller Card is the perfect solution for managing NVMe storage drives in storage and hyper-converged systems. BlueField Dual Port 100Gb/s Controller Card delivers the highest NVMe-oF target performance, reducing TCO and increasing ROI.
Ideal solution for JBOF and JBOD systems
Mellanox BlueField SoC is a highly integrated and efficient controller, optimized for NVMe storage systems, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Cloud, and AI workloads. BlueField SoC integrates all the discrete components of a storage system appliance into a single chip (CPU, PCIe switch, and network controller), making it the premier SoC solution for building Just-a-Bunch Of-Flash (JBOF) systems, All-Flash-Array and storage appliances for NVMe over Fabrics. With an integrated NVMe-oF offload accelerator, the BlueField SoC gives the BF1500 Controller Card a superior performance advantage over existing JBOF systems, significantly reducing storage transactions latency, while increasing IOPs (I/O operations per second).
Key Benefits
BF1500 Controller Card is a standard PCIe card that can transform existing JBOF systems into NVMe-oF compliant solutions, simply by plugging the cards into PCIe slots. BF1500 Controller Card offers a wide range of dedicated offloads to maximize virtualization scalability and efficiency, via a powerful blend of hardware accelerators, embedded software, and fully integrated advanced network capabilities. The integration of crypto engines within the BlueField BF1500 Controller Cards simplifies the implementation of security applications. These enhanced security capabilities reduce the threat of exposure and minimize risk while enabling real-time prevention, detection, and responses to potential threats. BlueField SoC also offers cost-effective and integrative solutions for Machine Learning appliances, enabling efficient data delivery for real-time analytics and data insights based on superior RDMA and GPUDirect ® RDMA technologies. Support for PCIe Gen4.0 helps future-proof the next generation of high-performance GPU cards.
Software Support
BF1500 Controller Card is shipped with Mellanox BlueOS® and a UEFI-based bootloader pre-installed. BlueOS is a Linux reference distribution targeted at BlueField-based embedded systems; Mellanox OFED and NVMe-oF support are installed by default. BlueOS itself is based on the Yocto Project Poky distribution. Through the use of the OpenEmbedded Build System and provided metadata, BlueOS can be easily modified by customers to meet their specific Linux distribution requirements. BlueOS is Linux-based and runs all customer Linux applications seamlessly. Storage customers may also choose to run the Linux distribution of their choice instead of BlueOS.
Mechanical Drawing of the BF1500 Controller Card - Component Side
Mechanical Drawing of the BF1500 Controller Card - Print Side
Bracket Mechanical Drawing
