Mellanox Enables the Next Generation of Software-Defined Data Center Networks With BlueField™ SmartNIC Network Adapters
October 04 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Software-Programmable Adapters Combine
Multicore ARM Processing and ConnectX® Technology to Deliver
Security, Acceleration and Server Offloads
Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier
of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data
center servers and storage systems, today announced its BlueField™
family of software-defined SmartNIC adapters, designed for
scale-out server and storage applications. The BlueField
intelligent adapters bring new capabilities to Mellanox’s portfolio
by embedding powerful ARM processor cores and accelerators in the
network interface card (NIC). Based on the BlueField system-on-chip
processors, with up to 200Gb/s of low-latency throughput, these
adapters enable a truly software-defined data center network.
As pressure on the data center’s agility and efficiency continue
to rise, intelligent networking solutions must simultaneously
deliver higher data throughput, greater flexibility, and offload
more and more of the costly host CPU cycles to the NIC. Integrating
compute and accelerator resources directly into the NIC boosts the
server workload capacity by 2 – 3 times, without requiring any
additional rack space and without adding significant power. Cloud
and large data center operators need the adaptability and
scalability of programmable adapters in order to roll-out new
services, features and advanced protocols without opening servers
for a hardware upgrade.
Key features of the BlueField intelligent adapters:
- 2 network ports of Ethernet or
InfiniBand: 10G/25G, 40G, 50G or 100Gb/s options
- RDMA support for both InfiniBand and
RoCE from the leader in RDMA technology
- Accelerators for NVMe-over-Fabrics
(NVMe-oF), RAID, crypto and packet processing
- PCI Express Gen3 and Gen4, with either
x8- or x16-lane configurations
- Integrated low-latency PCIe switch with
up to 8 external ports for flexible topologies
- Up to 16 ARMv8 Cortex A72 processors
with 20MB of coherent cache
- 8 – 32GB of on-board DDR4 DRAM
- Comprehensive virtualization support
with SR-IOV
- Accelerated Switching and Packet
Processing (ASAP2™) OVS offloads
- Multi-host and SocketDirect™ enabling a
single adapter to support up to four CPU hosts
- Multiple server form-factor options
including half-height, half-length PCIe and other
configurations
In data center server environments, the BlueField SmartNIC
addresses a wide range of applications, including Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV), security and network traffic acceleration.
The fully programmable environment and DPDK framework support a
wide range of standard software packages running in the BlueField
ARM subsystem. Examples include:
- Open vSwitch (OVS)
- Security packages such as L3/4
firewall, DDoS protection and Intrusion Prevention
- Encryption stacks (IPsec, SSL/TLS)
- Traffic monitoring, telemetry and
packet capture
“Our BlueField adapters effectively place a Computer in Front of
the Computer,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president marketing,
Mellanox Technologies. “They provide the flexibility needed to
adapt to new and emerging network protocols, and to implement
complex networking and security functions in a distributed manner,
right at the boundary of the server. This brings more scalability
to the data center and enhances security by creating an isolated
trust zone.”
“We expect the BlueField SmartNIC adapters to be a compelling
offering in the software-defined networking space,” said Bob
Wheeler, principal analyst at The Linley Group. “Performance
demands in this segment are growing rapidly and Mellanox is well
positioned with the ubiquitous driver support of its broadly
deployed ConnectX® network controller. With the addition of the
accelerators and ARM cores, BlueField will enable exciting
innovations in server and storage applications.”
“Mellanox BlueField intelligent adapters enable us to achieve
higher performance and offload for complex networking and storage
workloads,” said CT Sun, the chief architect and vice president of
engineering at AIC. “We are pleased to embrace a new generation of
Mellanox SmartNICs that enable AIC and our MAX I/O™ platform
customers to create highly differentiated products by enabling
fully software-programmable network processing.”
Mellanox will be showcasing BlueField adapters at the Linley
Processor Conference 2017, Oct. 4-5, at the Hyatt Regency, Santa
Clara, CA.
Supporting Resources:
- Learn more about: BlueField Smart
Adapters
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Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube
- Join the Mellanox Community
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier
of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect
solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged
infrastructure. Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions
increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput
and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and
unlocking system performance. Mellanox offers a choice of high
performance solutions: network and multicore processors, network
adapters, switches, cables, software and silicon, that accelerate
application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range
of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data
centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage, network security, telecom and
financial services. More information is available at:
www.mellanox.com.
Mellanox and ConnectX are registered trademarks of Mellanox
Technologies, Ltd. BlueField, SocketDirect™ and
ASAP2 are trademarks of Mellanox Technologies. All
other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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