Stargate-C3000 SmartNIC Chip
The Stargate-C3000 is an advanced, highly secure SmartNIC chip. It comprises the RX6, and RX5 series, designed for 100G SmartNIC, and 25G/10G SmartNIC, respectively. Tailored for Data Centers, Intelligent Computing Centers, etc. application scenarios. It delivers various functionalities such as virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), high-performance networking, high-performance storage, and security.
The Stargate-C3000 SmartNIC chip provides up to two 100Gb/s Ethernet ports, or four 25Gb/s Ethernet ports, and one PCIe Gen4x16 or PCIe Gen4x8 host interfaces, and offers comprehensive feature set and functionalities.
P4-Programmable Network Acceleration
Dynamic P4 Programmability
Enables user-defined data plane packet processing policies, including packet parsing, matching, forwarding, and modification, offering flexible support for proprietary protocols or customized service.
Supports flow table management via RTE Flow or TC Flower APIs, delivering efficient flow entry installation, querying, and updating mechanisms.
High-Performance RDMA Engine
Equipped with an industry-leading RDMA engine with standard Verbs programming interfaces, providing users high-speed, ultra-low latency, low CPU overhead, and scalable service capabilities through the flexible RoCEv2 high-performance networking.
Integrates with NCCL and OpenMPI collective communication libraries, enhancing GPU cluster performance through GPU Direct RDMA and GPU Direct Storage technologies.
Accelerates storage services such as iSER, NFS RDMA, SMB, and NVMe-oF.
High-Performance Shared Storage
Supports NVMe-oF acceleration for high performance storage application.
RDMA engine processes packet encapsulation, decapsulation and storage data transmission, providing a high-throughput, low-latency, and highly reliable storage solution while significantly reducing host CPU utilization.
Cloud-Native Virtualization Support
Supports SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization), delivering thousands of Virtio Functions to adapt to virtualization and containerized application scenarios.
Leverages cloud-native Virtio drivers, simplifying development by eliminating the needs for proprietary driver installation.
Supports live migration to meet the high-reliability demands of cloud computing scenarios.
Security Features
Configurable network packet filtering to meet the increasingly stringent security requirements.
Guarantees firmware upgrade security through a Root of Trust mechanism.
Management and Deployment
Facilitates remote data center deployment via PXE/iPXE technologies over IPv4/IPv6 networks.
Provides management control capabilities such as MCTP over SMBus/PCIe, PLDM, and NC-SI, enabling efficient server-side NIC monitoring and management.
Comprehensive Software SDK
Comprehensive Resnics Software Development Kit (RDK) to facilitate the chip and SmartNIC adoption.
Seamless integration with mainstream cloud-native software (e.g., DPDK, SPDK, vDPA, RTE Flow, TC Flower, Ethtool), accelerating user deployment cycles and Time to Market.
Functions & Advantages
Chip SKU
Smart NIC chip: 4x10G/25G
Smart NIC chip: 2x100G
High-speed IO
Ethernet: 4x10G/25G or 2x100G (MACs)
PCIe Gen4 x 16
Main functions
Virtio-net
SRIOV virtualization/P4 vSwitch virtual switching acceleration
RoCEv2
Target application scenarios
Standard NIC Card
Smart NIC Card (P4vSwitch, VirtIO, RDMA)
Competitive Advantage
P4 programmable network engine
Complete RDMA Core design and full hardware NVMe-oF offload
Cloud Native Driver
Complete standard NIC card/smart network card support