NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit
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| 25 | 25 | - [Ecosystem]() |
| 26 | 26 | |
| 27 | 27 | ## Introduction |
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| 29 | 29 | ## Transform the Data Center for AI With NVIDIA BlueField |
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| 31 | The NVIDIA® BlueField® platform ignites unprecedented performance, efficiency, and innovation-powering AI factories, the new class of purpose-built data centers for AI. 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. | |
| 31 | The NVIDIA® BlueField® platform ignites unprecedented performance, efficiency, and innovation-powering AI factories, the new class of purpose-built data centers for AI. 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, power efficiency, and AI. | |
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| 33 | 33 | ## News |
| 34 | 34 | |
| 35 | 35 | ### BlueField In the News |
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| 37 | ### NVIDIA Launches BlueField-4: The Processor Powering the Operating System of AI Factories | |
| 37 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 Fuels the Next Frontier of AI | |
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| 39 | Discover how NVIDIA BlueField-4 platform and DOCA™ microservices are powering gigascale AI factories with breakthrough networking, security, and data accelerations. | |
| 39 | NVIDIA BlueField-4 powers the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, a new class of AI-native data storage infrastructure designed to accelerate and scale gigascale agentic inference. | |
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| 41 | ### NVIDIA and Industry Leaders Unveil Enterprise Infrastructure for AI | |
| 41 | ### Introducing NVIDIA BlueField-4-Powered Inference Context Memory Storage Platform | |
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| 43 | The NVIDIA AI Data Platform accelerates enterprise storage to generate insights in real time. | |
| 43 | A new class of AI-native storage infrastructure using BlueField to eliminate inference GPU stalls, deliver power efficiency, and enables high-speed KV-sharing enabling inference infrastructure scale. | |
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| 45 | ### NVIDIA Brings Cybersecurity to Every AI Factory | |
| 45 | ### Redefining Secure AI Infrastructure with NVIDIA BlueField Astra for NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 | |
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| 47 | NVIDIA DOCA Argus delivers AI runtime security for AI factories, combining NVIDIA BlueField acceleration with seamless enterprise integration to secure workloads at scale-without compromising performance. | |
| 47 | Learn how to deliver bare-metal compute instances that maintain stronger isolation and a significantly improved security posture in multi-tenant environments. | |
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| 49 | ### Leading Partners Adopt NVIDIA Cybersecurity AI to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure | |
| 49 | ### NVIDIA Launches BlueField-4: The Processor Powering the Operating System of AI Factories | |
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| 51 | 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. | |
| 51 | Discover how NVIDIA BlueField-4 platform and DOCA™ microservices are powering gigascale AI factories with breakthrough networking, security, and data accelerations. | |
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| 53 | 53 | ## Portfolio |
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| 55 | 55 | ## Explore NVIDIA's Portfolio of BlueField Platforms |
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| 57 | 57 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU |
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| 59 | The NVIDIA BlueField-4 is an 800Gb/s infrastructure platform for gigascale AI factories. Delivering six times the compute of its predecessor and featuring accelerations for networking, data storage, and cybersecurity, it unlocks new levels of performance, efficiency, and scale for AI infrastructure. Supported by a growing ecosystem of applications, BlueField-4 enables service providers and enterprises to deliver secure multi-tenant networking, rapid data access, real-time threat detection, and high-performance inference-powering robust, agile, and trusted AI data centers. | |
| 59 | The NVIDIA BlueField-4 is an 800Gb/s infrastructure platform for gigascale AI factories. Delivering six times the compute of its predecessor and featuring accelerations for networking, data storage, and cybersecurity, it unlocks new levels of performance, minimizes data-movement bottlenecks, improves power efficiency, and increases scale for AI infrastructure. Supported by a growing ecosystem of applications, BlueField-4 enables service providers and enterprises to deliver secure multi-tenant networking, rapid data access, real-time threat detection, and high-performance inference-powering robust, agile, and trusted AI data centers. | |
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| 61 | 61 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU |
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| 63 | 63 | The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a 400Gb/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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| 65 | 65 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC |
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| 67 | The BlueField-3 SuperNIC is an advanced network NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU accelerator, purpose-built for supercharging hyperscale AI workloads. Designed for network-intensive, massively parallel computing, the BlueField-3 SuperNIC provides up to 400Gb/s of remote direct-memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) network connectivity between GPU servers, optimizing peak AI workload efficiency. Creating a new era of AI cloud computing, the BlueField-3 SuperNIC enables secure, multi-tenant data center environments with deterministic and isolated performance between jobs and tenants. | |
| 67 | The BlueField-3 SuperNIC™ is an advanced network NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU accelerator, purpose-built for supercharging hyperscale AI workloads. Designed for network-intensive, massively parallel computing, the BlueField-3 SuperNIC provides up to 400Gb/s of remote direct-memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) network connectivity between GPU servers, optimizing peak AI workload efficiency. Creating a new era of AI cloud computing, the BlueField-3 SuperNIC enables secure, multi-tenant data center environments with deterministic and isolated performance between jobs and tenants. | |
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| 69 | 69 | ## NVIDIA DOCA Microservices |
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| 71 | 71 | Prebuilt, composable microservices run natively on NVIDIA BlueField to accelerate AI factories with networking, cybersecurity, data acceleration, and orchestration. |
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| 73 | Platform Technologies | |
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| 75 | ## BlueField Platform for AI Networking | |
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| 73 | 77 | ### Networking for the Era of AI |
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| 75 | 79 | NVIDIA Ethernet SuperNICs emerge as a new class of network accelerators, purpose-built to supercharge network-intensive, massively distributed AI computing workloads. |
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| 81 | ### Advancing the Enterprise AI Factory with NVIDIA BlueField | |
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| 83 | BlueField-powered cybersecurity and acceleration solutions are now part of the AI Factory Validated Design. | |
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| 77 | 85 | ## Resources |
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| 79 | 87 | ## Discover More Ways to Transform Your Data Center |
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| 81 | 89 | 1. Cloud Networking |
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