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Part III — NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: Ultimate Cloudlab Setup
In this tutorial, we go through all necessary steps to configure and fire up an experiment with two Bluefield-2 SmartNICs connected back to back atthe Cloudlab facility at the University of Clemson.
[UPDATE 08/2023]: I started to revise my tutorials here by reproducing them from scratch. The content below has been updated accordingly without explicitly mentioning it at every single instance.
Ultimate Cloudlab Setup for NVIDIA / Mellanox Bluefield-2 Experiments
Disclaimer
While this part is a sequel of my series with the same title as “NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC + DPDK: “Rig for Dive” (c.f. Part I. and Part II.), here I only talk about the Cloudlab setup. Hence, if you lucky and have your own servers with your own Bluefields, you can skip this part and continue with Part IV.
TL;DR
Jump to the end of the document to grasp the lessons learned.
