Today’s network technologies drive OEMs to seek innovative, scalable and cost effective designs for dealing with the exponential growth of data. The Mellanox BlueField Reference Platform provides a multi-purpose fully-programmable hardware environment for evaluation, development and running of software solutions, reducing time-to-market and increasing product development and runtime efficiency.
The reference platform delivers all the features of the BlueField SoC in convenient form factors, making it ideal for a range of software solutions, for the most demanding markets. Features include two 100Gb/s Ethernet or InfiniBand interfaces, a 16-core BlueField processor, up to 512GB of RDIMM DDR4 memory, two PCIe x16 slots, and an NVMe-ready midplane for SSD connectivity.