NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit
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| 3 | 3 | - [Introduction]() |
| 4 | 4 | - [News]() |
| 5 | 5 | - [Portfolio]() |
| 6 | 6 | - [Networking for AI]() |
| 7 | 7 | - [Resources]() |
| 8 | 8 | - [Benefits]() |
| 9 | - [Technology]() | |
| 9 | 10 | - [Ecosystem]() |
| 10 | 11 | |
| 11 | 12 | - [Introduction]() |
| 12 | 13 | - [News]() |
| 13 | 14 | - [Portfolio]() |
| 14 | 15 | - [Networking for AI]() |
| 15 | 16 | - [Resources]() |
| 16 | 17 | - [Benefits]() |
| 18 | - [Technology]() | |
| 17 | 19 | - [Ecosystem]() |
| 18 | 20 | |
| 19 | 21 | - [Introduction]() |
| 20 | 22 | - [News]() |
| 21 | 23 | - [Portfolio]() |
| 22 | 24 | - [Networking for AI]() |
| 23 | 25 | - [Resources]() |
| 24 | 26 | - [Benefits]() |
| 27 | - [Technology]() | |
| 25 | 28 | - [Ecosystem]() |
| 26 | 29 | |
| 27 | 30 | ## Introduction |
| 28 | 31 | |
| 29 | 32 | ## Transform the Data Center for AI With NVIDIA BlueField |
| 30 | 33 | |
| 31 | 34 | 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. |
| 32 | 35 | |
| 33 | 36 | ## News |
| 34 | 37 | |
| 35 | 38 | ### BlueField In the News |
| 36 | 39 | |
| 40 | ### NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX Brings Agentic AI Storage Processing With In-Silicon Security | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | New NVIDIA DOCA capabilities deliver zero-trust file access, 1,000x faster threat detection, and 800Gb/s network enforcement for enterprise agentic AI. | |
| 43 | ||
| 37 | 44 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Platform Launches With Broad Industry Adoption |
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| 39 | 46 | NVIDIA STX is a modular AI storage reference design co‑developed with leading providers and built on NVIDIA accelerated compute, networking, and AI software. Learn how it powers NVIDIA BlueField‑4-based STX context memory storage that supercharges agentic AI and AI data infrastructure. |
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| 41 | 48 | ### NVIDIA Brings AI-Powered Cybersecurity to World's Critical Infrastructure |
| 42 | 49 | |
| 43 | 50 | Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens, and Xage Security are integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to advance OT cybersecurity, embedding real-time, zero-trust protection directly into industrial infrastructure for safer, more resilient operations. |
| 44 | 51 | |
| 45 | 52 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 Powers AI-Native Storage Infrastructure for the Next Frontier of AI |
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| 47 | 54 | 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. |
| 48 | 55 | |
| 49 | ### NVIDIA Launches BlueField-4: The Processor Powering the Operating System of AI Factories | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | Discover how the NVIDIA BlueField-4 platform and DOCA™ microservices are powering gigascale AI factories with breakthrough networking, security, and data accelerations. | |
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| 53 | 56 | ## Portfolio |
| 54 | 57 | |
| 55 | 58 | ## Explore NVIDIA's Portfolio of BlueField Platforms |
| 56 | 59 | |
| 57 | 60 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU |
| 58 | 61 | |
| 59 | 62 | 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. |
| 60 | 63 | |
| 64 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Processor | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | A purpose-built NVIDIA Vera CPU-based storage processor that powers AI storage platforms with accelerated AI-native data movement and in-silicon security, boosting throughput, efficiency, and scalability for next-generation AI infrastructure. | |
| 67 | ||
| 61 | 68 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU |
| 62 | 69 | |
| 63 | 70 | 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. |
| 64 | 71 | |
| 65 | ### NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC | |
| 72 | ## Powering the Agentic AI Factory | |
| 66 | 73 | |
| 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. | |
| 74 | Explore enterprise-ready microservices and orchestration frameworks for NVIDIA BlueField and NVIDIA® ConnectX® to accelerate, secure, and scale production AI workloads. | |
| 68 | 75 | |
| 69 | ## NVIDIA DOCA Microservices | |
| 70 | ||
| 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 | 76 | Platform Technologies |
| 74 | 77 | |
| 75 | 78 | ## BlueField Platform for AI Networking |
| 76 | 79 | |
| 77 | 80 | ### NVIDIA Context Memory Storage Platform |
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| 81 | 84 | ### Advancing the Enterprise AI Factory with NVIDIA BlueField |
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| 83 | 86 | BlueField-powered cybersecurity and acceleration solutions are now part of the AI Factory Validated Design. |
| 84 | 87 | |
| 85 | 88 | ## Resources |
| 86 | 89 | |
| 87 | ## Discover More Ways to Transform Your Data Center | |
| 90 | ## Dig Into BlueField | |
| 88 | 91 | |
| 89 | 1. Cloud Networking | |
| 92 | Explore datasheets, whitepapers, solution briefs, partner content, and more covering BlueField networking, security, and storage acceleration-all in one place. | |
| 90 | 93 | |
| 91 | 2. Network Infrastructure | |
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| 93 | 3. Ecosystem | |
| 94 | ||
| 95 | 4. Developer | |
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| 97 | 5. Cloud-Native Supercomputing | |
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| 99 | **Featured** | |
| 100 | ||
| 101 | ### Securely Deploy and Operate NVIDIA AI Clouds | |
| 102 | ||
| 103 | Powered by NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for NVIDIA AI systems. | |
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| 105 | Featured | |
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| 107 | **Featured** | |
| 108 | ||
| 109 | ### Do You Need To Update Your Data Center Network? | |
| 110 | ||
| 111 | Normally, 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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| 113 | Featured | |
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| 115 | **Featured** | |
| 116 | ||
| 117 | ### Secure Next-Generation Apps Over VMware Cloud Foundation With the BlueField-2 DPU. | |
| 118 | ||
| 119 | The 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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| 123 | **Featured** | |
| 124 | ||
| 125 | ### Get a Software Perspective on DPU-Based Hardware Acceleration. | |
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| 127 | Data 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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| 129 | Featured | |
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| 131 | **Featured** | |
| 132 | ||
| 133 | ### Deploy NVIDIA Cloud-Native Architecture for Bare-Metal, Secure Supercomputing. | |
| 134 | ||
| 135 | 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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| 139 | 94 | ## Benefits |
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| 141 | 96 | ## Explore the Benefits of NVIDIA BlueField |
| 142 | 97 | |
| 143 | 98 | ### High-Performance AI Networking |
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