The nVidia (Mellanox) Bluefield-2 DPU was created to solve the problem of doing trusted networking with untrusted workloads in large scale datacenters. With the nVidia Bluefield-2, users get access to a completely isolated (trusted) compute capability that sits in the flow of the traffic (in SmartNIC mode):
This is the start of a series of posts.
I’ve had a personal goal to start exploring FPGAs for a long time. As a software engineer, I was always drawn to the performance side: debugging, profiling, getting as close to the metal as possible.
This post documents my quest for finding boards with high end FPGA devices and peripherals for reasonable prices.
Used SmartNICs I started looking at accelerators and first generation SmartNICs.
