Research highlights, tutorials, and side-project write-ups.
Benchmarking DPDK-based packet generation and forwarding performance on the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU, comparing single- and multi-core throughput against the earlier baseline iperf3 results.
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Reinstalling BlueField OS from scratch on a Cloudlab-hosted BlueField-2 DPU after losing SSH access, ending up with a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 image with DPDK and DOCA pre-installed.
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Baseline TCP throughput testing of the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU with iperf3 — comparing host vs. DPU-side performance and single- vs. multi-threaded results on Cloudlab.
Read Article → Building and troubleshooting a two-node, back-to-back Bluefield-2 SmartNIC topology on Cloudlab's Clemson cluster, from profile design and Geni-lib scripting to bandwidth, reservation, and connectivity errors.
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Switching an NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU from Separated Host to Embedded Function (SmartNIC) mode, enabling RDMA, and compiling DPDK 20.11.1 from source with Meson and Ninja.
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Installing Mellanox drivers, configuring rshim, and getting SSH access to an NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU deployed at Cloudlab's Clemson cluster.
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