Networking NVIDIA BlueField-4 Networking Platform User Guide

Specifications

B4240L Liquid-Cooled Platform Specifications

OPNs

900-9D4C4-00CW-SA0: Crypto and Secure Boot Enabled with integrated BMC, dedicated for liquid-cooled systems only

BlueField-4 SoC

64 Arm-Cores - 750MHz/1700MHz

Physical

Single-Slot FHFL Card Dimensions: Refer to DPU Mechanical Drawing and Dimensions
Tall Bracket Dimensions: 124.0mm x 21.59m

Interfaces

See Supported Interfaces

PCI Express Interface

Gen6 SERDES @64.0GT/s, 16 lanes (5.0, 4.0, 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1 compatible)

On-board Memory

  • 8 units of LPDDR5x SDRAM  + ECC (128bit + 16bit ECC) for a total of 128GB @8533MT/s

  • On-Board Storage: 512GB M.2 SSD

Networking Connector 

Dual QSFP112 (copper and optical)

Data Rate

InfiniBand

NDR /HDR/HDR100/ EDR 

Ethernet (Default Speed)

400/200/100 Gb/s Ethernet

Protocol Support




InfiniBand: IBTA v1.7a

Auto-Negotiation: NDR (4 lanes x 100Gb/s per lane) port, NDR200 (2 lanes x 100Gb/s per lane) port, HDR (50Gb/s per lane) port, EDR (25Gb/s per lane) port

Ethernet: 400GAUI-4 C2M, 400GBASE-CR4, 200GAUI-2 C2M, 200GAUI-4 C2M, 200GBASE-CR4, 100GAUI-2 C2M, 100GAUI-1 C2M, 100GBASE-CR4, 100GBASE-CR2, 100GBASE-CR1, 50GAUI-2 C2M, 50GAUI-1 C2M, 50GBASE-CR, 50GBASE-R2

PCI Express Gen6: SERDES @ 64GT/s, 16 lanes (backward compatible)

Electrical and Thermal Specifications

Voltage: 12V

To be updated in a future version of this document.

Environmental

Temperature

Operational

0°C to 45°C

Non-operational

-40°C to 70°C(b)

Humidity

Operational

10% to 85% relative humidity 

Non-operational

10% to 90% relative humidity 

Altitude (Operational)

3050m


 

Regulatory

Safety

CB / cTUVus / CE

EMC

CE / FCC / VCCI / ICES / RCM

RoHS

RoHS compliant

Regulatory Model Number

TBD

Notes: 
(a) The BlueField-4 DPU supplement the IBTA auto-negotiation specification to get better bit error rates and longer cable reaches. This supplemental feature only initiates when connected to another NVIDIA InfiniBand product.
(b) The non-operational storage temperature specifications apply to the product without its package.

B4240 Air-Cooled Platform Specifications

OPNs

900-9D4B4-00CW-AA0: Crypto and Secure Boot Enabled with integrated BMC, dedicated for air-cooled systems only

BlueField-4 SoC

64 Arm-Cores - 750MHz/1700MHz

Physical 

Dual-Slot FH3/4L Card Dimensions: Refer to DPU Mechanical Drawing and Dimensions
Tall Bracket Dimensions: 124.41mm x 40.13mm
Heatsink Dimensions (Length, Width, Height): TBD

Interfaces

See Supported Interfaces

PCI Express Interface

Gen6 SERDES @64.0GT/s, 16 lanes (5.0, 4.0, 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1 compatible)

On-board Memory

  • 8 units of LPDDR5x SDRAM  + ECC (128bit + 16bit ECC) for a total of 128GB @8533MT/s

  • On-Board Storage: 512GB M.2 SSD

Networking Connector 

Dual QSFP112 (copper and optical)

Data Rate

InfiniBand

NDR /HDR/HDR100/ EDR 

Ethernet (Default Speed)

400/200/100 Gb/s Ethernet

Protocol Support




InfiniBand: IBTA v1.7a

Auto-Negotiation: NDR (4 lanes x 100Gb/s per lane) port, NDR200 (2 lanes x 100Gb/s per lane) port, HDR (50Gb/s per lane) port, EDR (25Gb/s per lane) port

Ethernet: 400GAUI-4 C2M, 400GBASE-CR4, 200GAUI-2 C2M, 200GAUI-4 C2M, 200GBASE-CR4, 100GAUI-2 C2M, 100GAUI-1 C2M, 100GBASE-CR4, 100GBASE-CR2, 100GBASE-CR1, 50GAUI-2 C2M, 50GAUI-1 C2M, 50GBASE-CR, 50GBASE-R2

PCI Express Gen6: SERDES @ 64GT/s, 16 lanes (backward compatible)

Electrical and Thermal Specifications

Voltage: 12V

To be updated in a future version of this document.

Environmental

Temperature

Operational

Chip to Port : 0°C up to 40°C

Port to Chip: 0°C to 45°C

Non-operational

-40°C to 70°C(b)

Humidity

Operational

10% to 85% relative humidity 

Non-operational

10% to 90% relative humidity 

Altitude (Operational)

3050m


 

Regulatory

Safety

CB / cTUVus / CE

EMC

CE / FCC / VCCI / ICES / RCM

RoHS

RoHS compliant

Regulatory Model Number

TBD

Notes: 
(a) The BlueField-4 DPU supplement the IBTA auto-negotiation specification to get better bit error rates and longer cable reaches. This supplemental feature only initiates when connected to another NVIDIA InfiniBand product.
(b) The non-operational storage temperature specifications apply to the product without its package.

DPU Mechanical Drawing and Dimensions

All dimensions are in millimeters. The PCB mechanical tolerance is +/- 0.13mm.

The diagrams may differ for different cards and are provided here for illustration purposes only.

OPNs

Mechanical Drawings

FHFL Single-Slot Dual-Port Liquid Cooled DPU

Model: B4240L
900-9D4C4-00CW-SA0

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FH3/4L Dual-Slot Dual-Port Air Cooled DPU

Model: B4240
900-9D4B4-00CW-AA0

 

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Bracket Mechanical Drawings

All dimensions are in millimeters.

Model/OPNs

Tall Bracket

Model: B4240L
900-9D4C4-00CW-SA0


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Model: B4240
900-9D4B4-00CW-AA0

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