NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units
NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units
Revolutionising the Datacentre for AI
NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPU) ignite unprecedented innovation for modern AI server architecture within datacentres. By offloading, accelerating, and isolating a broad range of advanced networking, storage, and security services, BlueField DPUs provide a secure and accelerated infrastructure for any artificial intelligence (AI) workload in any environment - from the cloud to the datacentre and out to the edge. BlueField DPUs combine powerful computing, full infrastructure-on-chip programmability, zero-trust security and high-throughput, low-latency networking to address the most demanding machine learning, deep learning and AI workloads.
Security from the Perimeter to the Server
BlueField DPUs enable a zero-trust, security-everywhere architecture where security goes beyond the datacentre perimeter to the edge of every server, ensuring your critical AI datasets remain protected.
Data Storage for Demanding Workloads
BlueField DPUs provides high performance storage access with latencies for remote storage that rival direct attached storage. Features include NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), GPUDirect Storage, encryption, elastic storage, data decompression and deduplication.
High Performance, Efficient Networking
BlueField is a powerful datacentre services accelerator, delivering up to 400Gb/s of Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity for modern GPU-accelerated workloads like deep learning and AI, while freeing host CPU cores to run applications instead of infrastructure tasks.
The Datacentre on a Chip Architecture
The NVIDIA datacentre-on-a-chip (DOCA) software framework enables developers to rapidly create applications and services for the BlueField-2 DPU. NVIDIA DOCA makes it easy to leverage DPU hardware accelerators, providing breakthrough datacentre performance, efficiency and security. With DOCA, program the datacentre infrastructure of tomorrow by creating high-performance, software-defined, cloud-native, DPU-accelerated services to address the increasing performance and security demands of modern datacentres.
Future Proof
DOCA provides multi-generational support to offer developers the confidence that applications developed today will consistently run with added performance benefits on all future generations of BlueField.
Offload, Accelerate, Isolate Infrastructure
Network, storage and security services are offloaded, accelerated and isolated on the DPU while data is securely delivered to workloads at wire speed.
Open Ecosystem
DOCA offers a software application framework to accelerate ecosystem development.
DOCA unlocks datacentre innovation by enabling developers to rapidly create applications and services on top of NVIDIA DPUs, leveraging industry-standard APIs. Together, DOCA and the BlueField DPU enable the development of applications that deliver breakthrough networking, security, and storage performance with a comprehensive, open development platform. BlueField isolates the infrastructure service domain from the workload domain to offer significant improvements in application and server performance, security, and efficiency, giving developers all the tools they need to realise the optimal, secure, accelerated datacentre.
The Benefits of Bluefield for AI
BlueField-3 DPUs
NVIDIA BlueField-3 is the first 400GbE / NDR DPU with line-rate processing of software-defined networking, storage, and cybersecurity. BlueField-3 combines powerful computing, high-speed networking, and extensive programmability to deliver software-defined, hardware-accelerated solutions for the most demanding workloads. From accelerated AI computing to hybrid cloud to cloud-native supercomputing and 5G wireless networks, BlueField-3 redefines the art of the possible.
| Name | Protocol | Interfaces | Maximum Speed | Memory | Host Bus | RDMA / RoCE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Bluefield-3 | Ethernet | QSFP56 | 2x 200GbE / 1x 400GbE | 16GB | PCIe 5.0 |
Yes
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| NVIDIA Bluefield-3 | Ethernet | QSFP56 | 2x 200GbE / 1x 400GbE | 16GB | PCIe 5.0 |
Yes
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| NVIDIA Bluefield-3 | InfiniBand | QSFP56 | 2x 200Gb HDR / 1x 400Gb NDR | 16GB | PCIe 5.0 |
Yes
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| NVIDIA Bluefield-3 | InfiniBand | QSFP56 | 2x 200Gb HDR / 1x 400Gb NDR | 16GB | PCIe 5.0 |
Yes
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