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Even at the very recent GTC’21, it was announced that DOCA is already available while NVIDIA has just confirmed the upcoming BF-3 DPUs.
I already signed up for early access for DOCA, but still no response. Does this even exist? What is the average waiting time for getting approval done?
So sorry for this approval delay. I checked this morning and it looks like you’ve been approved. Have fun!
Hi @jubetz,
I am a research scientist at IIT Bombay and we have procured Bluefield-1 SmartNICs. We have been waiting for the DOCA SDK for quite some time. The latest DOCA SDK is for Bluefield-2 NICs.
Could you help us with the DOCA SDK for Bluefiled-1 NICs?
Hey @rinku, BF1 will not support DOCA. BF1 is missing some hardware acceleration components (Regex, GPU, etc), that DOCA, as a whole, provides programming methods for. BF1 can make use of some of the components that DOCA consists of, such as DPDK and SPDK. It is still a highly programmable and flexible NIC, but does not have all of the same capabilities that DOCA, as a whole, aims to provide.
Thanks for your response, @jubetz. If I understand this correctly, BF1 does not have P4 support too. Could you provide a link that states the features supported by BF1?
I know it might be a cliché, but I don’t think BF1 supports P4. According to the brochure it only supports DPDK.
I am not even sure at the moment, whether BF2 supports P4 :) There is not much information available on how P4 is supported and could be used.
Hello, I’m a graduate student at Institute of Computation Technology and I’m working with my graduation thesis. I have signed up for early access for DOCA and I also have bought one of your DPU products. I need the DOCA SDK for my graduation thesis experiment, so could you please approve my application soon ?