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In R6, we introduce PCIe based data fabric. In the future, we will include CXL or UCIe based as well.
For the hardware components information:
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Comments
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Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6248 CPU @ 2.50GHz/ 40 cores / 2 numa / 320G memory
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- CentOS 7.6 over Arm architecture
- MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-1.0.4 (compiled with DPDK and BlueField flags)
- DPDK libraries version 20.11
- Pre-configured network settings for easy SmartNIC management
Software Platform Architecture
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APIs
No changes from previous Release 5.
Hardware and Software Management
The detailed hardware is itemized below
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ARM A72 8 cores / single numa / 16G memory/ 25G bandwidth
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Hardware Design
Cloud-on-Board (CoB) Architecture
For general computing, we introduce the CoB with three major components:
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3) Edge Adapter Module (EAM): PCIe-compatible Device, such as GPU, NIC, SSD etc.
Networking Topology
In CoB design, we have multiple networks. At least one PCIe networking for multiple CPUs. Also we can introduce more connections as well as traditional RJ45 as the management ports as well. Hence all CoB Hardware are cloud native compatible at the beginning.
Networking in CoB system for Cloud Native Applications
Cloud Native Server Reference Design
At least, we pack all components together, and give a reference design as below.
Licensing
GNU/common license
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