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Overview

Helium SmartNIC adopts high-performance DPU architecture design and provides fully open software development environment, which can offload and accelerate processing of virtual networks and virtual network functions that customers originally run on x86 servers in scenarios such as cloud data centers, HPC and edge computing, providing customers a higher performance experience while reducing total cost of ownership. Take NFV offloading as an example：

Product Performance Latency Connection Per Second Power Consumption Cost
2U Server（2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5118 24 Cores） 60Gbps 200us 120.000 350W X
Helium DPU SNIC 24 Cores 60Gbps 100us 150.000 60W 0.5X

From the above data, it can be found that the power consumption of the Helium SmartNIC is only 1/6 of that of the server, and the purchase cost is saved by more than 1/2, while providing lower forwarding delay and higher number of new flow sessions. Of course, this is the data obtained from the test of a single NFV business dimension. If we start from the dimension of the overall construction plan of cloud services, what will be the result? Take cloud gateway access as an example：

Environment Devices Rack Space Power Consumption Connection per 1U Cost
1.44Tbps 24 x 2U Server 48U，two 42U standard cabinet 8400W 6000 Y
1.44Tbps 3 x 4U Server，24 x Helium DPU，1 x Switch 14U，half of 42U standard cabinet 3390W 20000 0.5Y

Under the premise of ensuring the total number of access users, the solution of introducing Helium SmartNIC has obvious advantages in terms of rack space occupation, total power consumption, and cost compared with the solution of pure 2U servers. The rack space is saved by more than 2/3, the total power consumption is saved by more than 1/2, and the construction cost is saved by 1/2 dollars. Moreover, the average number of users connected to 1U of the rack is increased by more than 3 times. In addition, Helium SmartNIC also provides rich application scenario verification (such as OVS, 5G UPF, DPVS, IPsec, SSL), ensuring high-reliability and high-performance for business. Adhering to the concept of open network, Asterfusion opens product information and code to all customers, and sincerely invites everyone to jointly build the DPU product ecosystem.

Features

  • 4 x SFP28 or 2 x QSFP28, meet 100Gbps typical traffic processing capacity
  • 24-core ARMv8 processor, integrated encryption and decryption, compression and decompression, virtualization, data packet processing, traffic shaping co-processing engine
  • Optimized DPDK and VPP
  • Support Debian/Ubuntu/Centos
  • Support docker
  • Large Capacity ACL & Connection Tables: support over 10 million concurrent sessions with maximum 64GB memory
  • PCIe x16 Gen3.0/Gen4.0，support PCIe online upgrade
  • 1GbE out-of-band management port
  • 1GbE in-band management port

Application Scenario

  • Network acceleration:
    • OVS offload
    • OVS offload + 3rd-Party Applications
    • VxLAN (VTEP) offload
    • TCP/UDP offload
    • Gateway NFV (vFW/vLB/vNAT/vR) offload
  • Storage acceleration:
    • NVMeoF (TCP) Offload
    • Compression and decompression Offload
  • Security acceleration:
    • Inline IPsec
    • SSL/TLS Offload
    • eBPF Offload
  • User-Defined Scenario

Hardware Specification

Panel

panel

Architecture

framework

Specification

Category Helium EC2004Y Helium EC2002P
Network interfaces 4 x 25GE SFP28 2 x 100GE QSFP28
Host interface PCIe x8 Gen3.0/Gen4.0 PCIe x8 Gen3.0/Gen4.0
Management interface 1 x Console Micro USB，1*GE RJ45 OOB port 1 x Console Micro USB，1*GE RJ45 OOB port
Power consumption 60W 60W
Dimension (W x H x D, mm) 111.15 x 18.91 x 178.48 111.15 x 18.91 x 194.35
Weight (kg) 0.8 0.8
Operating temperature 0~35℃ 0~35℃
Operating humidity 10%~90% (non-condensing) 10%~90% (non-condensing)
DPU model Marvell CN9670, 24-cores ARM64, 1.8GHz Marvell CN9670, 24-cores ARM64, 1.8GHz
Memory capacity 16GB DDR4, maximum 64GB 16GB DDR4, maximum 64GB
Flash storage 64GB EMMC 5.1 64GB EMMC 5.1

Contents

|-- Boards  //Helium Hardware Architecture
    |-- EC2004Y
    |-- EC2002P
|-- Doc  //Helium Manual
    |-- User Manual
|-- Host //Host Codes
|-- Helium //Helium Codes
    |-- DPDK
    |-- VPP
    |-- OvS
    |-- UPF
    |-- DPVS
    |-- Kernel
    |-- Toolchain
|-- READMD.md

Quickly Start

How to Contribute

Asterfusion welcomes customers, developers, and researchers to contribute in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:

  • Submit Issue: If you have any questions about the use of Helium SNIC, you can submit an issue to the community, including but not limited to usage questions, bugs, feature requirements, etc.
  • Technical discussion: Discuss DPU related application scenarios and solutions with DPU R&D members in real time through email, communication group, online meeting, etc.

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