NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part IV: Baseline Throughput Tests with iperf3

In this episode, we scrutinize the performance of the Bluefield-2 SmartNIC in our two-node cluster deployed at Cloudlab. We had quite a bumpy road in reaching this point, but we finally did it. If you missed the former parts, read Part I to know how to install the necessary drivers; read Part II to see how DPDK can be installed, and read Part III to see how the environment we further work in can be achieved in Cloudlab.