NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit

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1Advanced infrastructure computing platform for powering the world's data centers.
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3- [Introduction]()
4- [Portfolio]()
5- [Networking for AI]()
6- [Resources]()
7- [Power Efficiency]()
8- [Benefits]()
9- [Ecosystems]()
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11- [Introduction]()
12- [Portfolio]()
13- [Networking for AI]()
14- [Resources]()
15- [Power Efficiency]()
16- [Benefits]()
17- [Ecosystems]()
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19- [Introduction]()
20- [Portfolio]()
21- [Networking for AI]()
22- [Resources]()
23- [Power Efficiency]()
24- [Benefits]()
25- [Ecosystems]()
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127## Transform the Data Center With NVIDIA BlueField
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329The NVIDIA® BlueField® networking platform ignites unprecedented innovation for modern data centers and supercomputing clusters. With its robust compute power and integrated software-defined hardware accelerators for networking, storage, and security, BlueField creates a secure and accelerated infrastructure for any workload in any environment, ushering in a new era of accelerated computing and AI.
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31## Explore NVIDIA's Portfolio of DPUs and SuperNICs
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533### NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU
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735The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a 400 gigabits per second (Gb/s) infrastructure compute platform 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 to hybrid cloud, high-performance computing to 5G wireless networks, BlueField-3 redefines the art of the possible.
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937### NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC
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1341### NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU
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1543The NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU provides innovative acceleration, security, and efficiency in every host. BlueField-2 data center infrastructure combines the power of the NVIDIA ConnectX®-6 Dx with programmable Arm® cores and hardware offloads for software-defined storage, networking, security, and management workloads.
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1745NVIDIA BlueField-2 also delivers superior performance, security, and reduced total cost of ownership for cloud computing platforms, enabling organizations to efficiently build and operate virtualized, containerized, and bare-metal infrastructures at massive scale.
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19## **The Conference for the Era of AI and the Metaverse**
47## NVIDIA DOCA
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21### Developer Conference March 20-23 | Keynote March 21
49Unlock data center innovation by enabling the rapid creation of applications and services for the BlueField networking platform with the NVIDIA DOCA™ software development kit.
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51## Networking for the Era of AI
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25Join industry security experts to learn about the evolution of network security and the need for a zero-trust approach. Hybrid work demands enterprises to reevaluate and deliver security innovations for our workplace, workforce, and workload regardless of where workers and apps reside. As security workloads transition from centralized appliances at the edge to virtualized instances running on every server in the data center and cloud, powerful programmable processors are becoming essential. With the latest trends in AI, machine learning, 5G, and the internet of things, data center architects are being challenged to meet the increasing demands for scale and accelerated performance, while maintaining and innovating security at the highest level, despite an evolving threat landscape. We'll discuss the challenges of existing approaches and share techniques and strategies for a new way to offload, accelerate, and isolate security.
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27In a world of growing infrastructure complexity and application sprawl, ensuring high performance, full stack security and operational agility has become a challenge for organizations that are creating competitive advantage. In this panel session, VMware and NVIDIA discuss essential insights into how businesses can leverage VMware Cloud Foundation and NVIDIA DPU and GPU technologies to extend infrastructure services through VMware vSphere on DPU.
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29Computing is advancing at incredible speed, and cloud computing is becoming the norm for nearly every enterprise. Cloud computing allows companies to deploy applications faster, reduce operating costs, and rapidly scale resources to meet growing demand. However, not all clouds are created equal. Modern applications increasingly rely on accelerated computing as the underlying technology to deliver on the promise of machine learning and artificial intelligence. We'll discuss how organizations can build cloud computing infrastructures that are accelerated, efficient, and secure to power the next wave of applications.
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3153### Data Center Networks Usher in the Era of AI
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3355The data center's network is ultimately responsible for ushering in the era of AI advancements and performance. Learn how the newest class of data centers can support AI workloads with accelerated computing and high-performance networking.
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3557### The First Ethernet Network Designed for AI Workloads
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3759The NVIDIA Spectrum™-X networking platform, consisting of the NVIDIA Spectrum switch and the BlueField-3 SuperNIC, is the world's first Ethernet fabric built for AI, accelerating generative AI network performance by 1.6X over traditional Ethernet fabrics.
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3961### Next-Generation Networking for the Next Wave of AI
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4163Modern AI workloads operate at data center-scale, heavily relying on fast and efficient connectivity between GPU servers. Discover the pivotal role of the BlueField-3 SuperNIC in enabling an optimal AI network.
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65## Resources
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67## Discover More Ways to Transform Your Data Center
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81### What is a SuperNIC?
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83The SuperNIC is a new class of network accelerators designed to supercharge hyperscale AI workloads in Ethernet-based clouds.
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89### Do You Need To Update Your Data Center Network?
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91Normally, data center networks are updated when new applications or servers are installed in the infrastructure. But independent of new server and application infrastructure forcing an update, there are other areas to consider. Learn the three questions to ask when assessing if you need to update your network.
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97### Secure Next-Generation Apps Over VMware Cloud Foundation With the BlueField-2 DPU.
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99The integration of the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU within the next-generation VMware Cloud Foundation creates a powerful enterprise cloud platform with best-in-class security, operational efficiency, and ROI. It's a secure architecture for the modern enterprise private cloud leveraging VMware and accelerated by both DPU and GPU. The accelerators provide security, lower TCO, higher performance, and new functionality that wasn't possible before.
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105### Get a Software Perspective on DPU-Based Hardware Acceleration.
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107Data processing units (DPUs) provide greater data center efficiency, but low-level-programming requirements have hindered broad adoption. NVIDIA's DOCA software framework, which abstracts the programming of BlueField DPUs, removes this obstacle. Hear from Linley Group analyst Bob Wheeler how customers will be able to program future converged DPU+GPU hardware using the combination of DOCA and CUDA.
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113### Deploy NVIDIA Cloud-Native Architecture for Bare-Metal, Secure Supercomputing.
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115High-performance computing (HPC) and AI have driven supercomputers into wide commercial use. They've become the primary data processing engines for research, scientific discoveries, and even product development. When designing a supercomputer architecture, the goal is twofold: to mitigate factors that impact performance and to accelerate application performance whenever possible.
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119## Power Efficiency With DPUs
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43121### NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Drive Data Center Efficiency
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45123Learn how DPUs reduced power consumption in testing with key NVIDIA partners.
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47125### DPU Power-Efficiency Research
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49127NVIDIA DPUs can reduce power consumption by 30%, saving $56 million for large data centers. Find all of NVIDIA's test results on the power consumption of various DPUs.
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51129### Creating a Power-Efficient Data Center With DPUs
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53131Learn about BlueField DPU power savings research and get answers to data center efficiency questions.
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133## Explore the Benefits of BlueField
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135### Peak AI Workload Efficiency
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55137BlueField accelerates AI performance with robust RoCE networking, GPUDirect® RDMA and RoCE, direct data placement, and programmable congestion control, creating an exceptionally fast and efficient network infrastructure for AI.
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139### Security From the Perimeter to the Server
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57141BlueField enables a zero-trust, security-everywhere architecture where security goes beyond the data center perimeter to the edge of every server.
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143### Data Storage for Expanding Workloads
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59145With NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), GPUDirect Storage, encryption, elastic storage, data integrity, decompression, and deduplication, BlueField provides high-performance storage access with latencies for remote storage that rival direct-attached storage.
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147### High-Performance Cloud Networking
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61149BlueField is a powerful cloud infrastructure processor, delivering up to 400Gb/s of Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity for both traditional applications and modern workloads, while freeing host CPU cores to run applications instead of infrastructure tasks.
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151## Featured BlueField Technology Environments
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63153### Experience VMware vSphere on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs
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65155VMware vSphere is available on NVIDIA LaunchPad, providing easy access to VMware ESXi-optimized software running on BlueField DPU-accelerated infrastructure for testing next-generation applications and workloads.
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67157### BlueField-Enhanced Servers Supercharge Generative AI for Enterprises
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81171The NVIDIA AX800 converged accelerator delivers high-performance 5G, with deep integration of the BlueField-3 DPU and A800 GPU, allowing cloud service providers to host 5G RAN and AI services on multi-tenant GPU cloud infrastructure.
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83173### Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Chooses NVIDIA BlueField Networking
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85175Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is advancing sustainability goals by using BlueField DPUs to offload data center tasks from CPUs, achieving greater performance, efficiency, and security.
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177## Meet the Solutions Ecosystem
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93### Try the DOCA SDK
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95Sign up to receive exclusive news, updates, and early access to the NVIDIA DOCA SDK.
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