chat, please rate my NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU power, cooling, and communications solution
yes, that's a hairdryer. yes, it is very loud. yes, it reduces the temperature from "96C and after 10 minutes t...
I rate it a: yikes.
A hair dryer?!
Admittedly, I guess a NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a 400Gbps interconnect (presumably what the previously known as Mellanox folks are working on since they were acquired?) and that seems nifty! I don't have any experience with anything like that.
I am also weird insomuch as one of my past employers had Prop 65 Warnings everywhere (basically a California hazardous sign that dust particulates in the area may cause cancer) and really got into fanless design discipline decades ago (and even used such experiences when helping collaborate on some giant interactive fire art sculpture stuff at some Burning Man iterations, long ago). But, I also know too darned well how few GPU (and related DPUs or whatever I guess these days) are fanless in nature. ;(
Heck, even PSUs being fanless are a pain. I can find hot swappable PSUs (like, duh) and fanless PSUs (also duh) but PSUs that are hot swappable and fanless!? I cannot find them, anywhere and I have searched, repeatedly, over the years. In theory, I guess I can build such things? I really do not want to focus on that as a goal at the moment.
The hair dryer is presumably at least: budget friendly? The whole thing presumably is, well, for the throughput it can, in theory, provide. Hopefully the benchmarks are up to snuff as far as expected pushed packets or whatever!
A hair dryer?!
Admittedly, I guess a NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a 400Gbps interconnect (presumably what the previously known as Mellanox folks are working on since they were acquired?) and that seems nifty! I don't have any experience with anything like that.
I am also weird insomuch as one of my past employers had Prop 65 Warnings everywhere (basically a California hazardous sign that dust particulates in the area may cause cancer) and really got into fanless design discipline decades ago (and even used such experiences when helping collaborate on some giant interactive fire art sculpture stuff at some Burning Man iterations, long ago). But, I also know too darned well how few GPU (and related DPUs or whatever I guess these days) are fanless in nature. ;(
Heck, even PSUs being fanless are a pain. I can find hot swappable PSUs (like, duh) and fanless PSUs (also duh) but PSUs that are hot swappable and fanless!? I cannot find them, anywhere and I have searched, repeatedly, over the years. In theory, I guess I can build such things? I really do not want to focus on that as a goal at the moment.
The hair dryer is presumably at least: budget friendly? The whole thing presumably is, well, for the throughput it can, in theory, provide. Hopefully the benchmarks are up to snuff as far as expected pushed packets or whatever!
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