BlueField3 DPU Characterization

Citation

• Wahlgren, J., Hu, A., Pearce, R., Gokhale, M. and Peng, I., 2026. Communication Offloading on SmartNIC DPUs: A Quantitative Approach. In European Conference on Parallel Processing 2026 (EuroPar'26).
• Wahlgren, J., Schieffer, G., Gokhale, M., Pearce, R. and Peng, I., 2024, November. Disaggregated memory with smartnic offloading: a case study on graph processing. In 2024 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD) (pp. 159-169). IEEE. Link

Main Components in this repo:

• Data Movement Bandwidth and Latency: perftest
• Memory System: tinymembench-0.4, stream, diana
• Network latency and Bandwidth: MPI
• Data Movement via DMA: dmaBench, doca_dma, doca_dmx

Memory Latency Characterization:

DMA Latency Characterization:

MPI Latency Characterization:

Memory Bandwidth Characterization: