NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit

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+## Introduction
 ## Transform the Data Center With NVIDIA BlueField
 The 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.
+## News
 ### BlueField In the News
+### NVIDIA and F5 Turbocharge Sovereign AI Clouds With NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs
+### NVIDIA and Industry Leaders Unveil Enterprise Infrastructure for AI
+NVIDIA® BlueField®-3 DPUs integrate with F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes to boost AI efficiency and strengthen security by offloading data tasks.
+The NVIDIA AI Data Platform accelerates enterprise storage to generate insights in real time.
+### NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Platforms Arrive Equipped With NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs
+### NVIDIA Launches Blackwell Ultra Platform to Pave Way for Age of AI Reasoning
+Flagship, rack-scale platforms powered by the Grace Blackwell accelerator and NVIDIA BlueField-3 networking innovations enable breakthroughs in data processing for the most compute-intensive workloads.
+NVIDIA Quantum-X800 and Spectrum-X™ networking provides enhanced networking for AI infrastructure.
+### New NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Architecture Built With DGX GB200 Systems and NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs
+### NVIDIA Announces DGX SuperPOD Powered by Blackwell Ultra for AI Factories
+The DGX GB200 systems at the heart of the Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD architecture feature NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for providing next-generation networking and high-performance storage access.
+NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ with DGX GB300 or DGX B300 systems feature NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for next-generation networking, accelerating performance, efficiency, and security in massive-scale AI data centers.
+### Leading Partners Adopt NVIDIA Cybersecurity AI to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure
+The NVIDIA cybersecurity AI platform integrates NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and the NVIDIA Morpheus software framework to power next-generation cyber defenses from Armis, Check Point, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, and WWT.
+## Portfolio
 ## Explore NVIDIA's Portfolio of BlueField Networking Platforms
 ### NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU
 The 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.
 ### Deploy NVIDIA Cloud-Native Architecture for Bare-Metal, Secure Supercomputing.
 High-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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+## Power Efficiency
 ## Power Efficiency With DPUs
 ### NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Drive Data Center Efficiency
 Learn how DPUs reduced power consumption in testing with key NVIDIA partners.
 NVIDIA 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.
 ### Creating a Power-Efficient Data Center With DPUs
 Learn about BlueField DPU power savings research and get answers to data center efficiency questions.
+## Benefits
 ## Explore the Benefits of BlueField
 ### Peak AI Workload Efficiency
 BlueField 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.
 With 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.
 ### High-Performance Cloud Networking
 BlueField 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.
+## Technology Environments
 ## Featured BlueField Technology Environments
+### NVIDIA and Industry Leaders Unveil Enterprise Infrastructure for AI
+The NVIDIA AI Data Platform revolutionizes enterprise storage, empowering industry leaders to build distributed agentic systems with accelerated AI data processing, enabling businesses to unlock the full value of their data.
 ### Scale Enterprise RAG with NVIDIA BlueField Networking
 In the era of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) empowers enterprises to capitalize on their data. Learn how BlueField enables businesses to deploy scalable and efficient RAG workflows.
 ### BlueField-Enhanced Servers Supercharge Generative AI for Enterprises
 Providing powerful computing, high-speed InfiniBand networking, and highly programmable engines, the NVIDIA BlueField networking platform ignites unprecedented innovation and performance for modern scientific computing applications.
 ### Boost Cybersecurity With the NVIDIA Morpheus AI Framework
 NVIDIA Morpheus is an AI application framework that provides cybersecurity developers with a highly optimized AI pipeline and pretrained AI capabilities that bring a new level of security to data centers. The Morpheus framework provides highly scalable and adaptive data ingest, pretrained AI models, and policy control functions, enabling cybersecurity developers to detect and remediate security threats.
+### Deliver High-Performance, Software-Defined 5G With NVIDIA AX800
+The 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.
 ### Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Chooses NVIDIA BlueField Networking
 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is advancing sustainability goals by using BlueField DPUs to offload data center tasks from CPUs, achieving greater performance, efficiency, and security.
+## Ecosystem
 ## Meet the Solutions Ecosystem
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