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Data Center Infrastructure on a Chip

The NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 data processing unit (DPU) is the world’s first data center infrastructure-on-a-chip optimized for traditional enterprises’ modern cloud workloads and high performance computing. It delivers a broad set of accelerated software-defined networking, storage, security, and management services with the ability to offload, accelerate and isolate data center infrastructure. With its 200Gb/s Ethernet or InfiniBand connectivity, the BlueField-2 DPU enables organizations to transform their IT infrastructures into state-of-the-art data centers that are accelerated, fully programmable, and armed with “zero trust” security to prevent data breaches and cyber attacks.

By combining the industry-leading NVIDIA ConnectX®-6 Dx network adapter with an array of Arm® cores and infrastructure-specific offloads, BlueField-2 offers purpose-built, hardware-acceleration engines with full software programmability. Sitting at the edge of every server, BlueField-2 empowers agile, secured and high-performance cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, all while reducing the total cost of ownership and increasing data center efficiency.

The NVIDIA 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 data center performance, efficiency and security.

Key Software-Defined, Hardware-Accelerated Applications

Networking
vSwitch/vRouter, NAT, load balancer, NFV

Storage
NVMe™ over fabrics (NVMe-oF™), elastic storage virtualization, hyper converged infrastructure (HCI), encryption, data integrity, compression, data deduplication

Security
Next-Generation firewall, IDS/IPS, root of trust, micro-segmentation, DDOS prevention

 

Key Features

Security

• Hardware root of trust

• Accelerates a wide range of security, networking, storage and other workloads

• IPsec/TLS and AES-XTS encryption acceleration

• Connection tracking for stateful firewall and IDS/IPS

• Regular expression (RegEx) matching processor

• Hardened isolation layer

Storage

• NVIDIA GPUDirect® Storage

• Elastic block storage enabled by BlueField SNAP storage virtualization

• Compression and decompression acceleration

• NVMe-oF acceleration

• VirtIO-blk acceleration

Networking

• RoCE, Zero Touch RoCE

• GPUDirect

• SDN acceleration powered by NVIDIA ASAP2 - Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing®

• Overlay network offloads including VXLAN

• VirtIO-blk acceleration

Management

• Authenticated product life-cycle management

• Telemetry agents

Portfolio

• Dual ports of up to 100Gb/s, or a single port of 200Gb/s Ethernet or InfiniBand

• 16GB / 32GB of on-board DDR4 memory

• Card form factors: HHHL, and FHHL

• 1GbE out-of-band management port

Data Center Infrastructure on a Chip

The NVIDIA BlueField-2 data processing unit (DPU) is a data center infrastructure on a chip optimized for traditional enterprise, high-performance computing (HPC), and modern cloud workloads, delivering a broad set of accelerated software-defined networking, storage, security, and management services. The BlueField-2 DPU enables organizations to transform their IT infrastructures into state-of-the-art data centers that are accelerated, fully programmable, and armed with zero trust security to prevent data breaches and cyber attacks.

Full specification and details can be found in the Product Datasheet PDF file