A setup guide for provisioning an NVIDIA BlueField DPU (Data Processing Unit) running Ubuntu 24.04, covering BFB image installation via rshim, OS cleanup (removing Kubernetes/Docker components), user configuration, and converting the DPU into a VPP (Vector Packet Processing) node using DPDK with a Mellanox PMD. Includes grub configuration for hugepages and IOMMU passthrough required for DPDK operation.
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