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.
Security
Hardware root of trust
Regular expression (RegEx) matching processor acceleration
Hardened isolation layer
IPsec/TLS and XTS encryption
Connection tracking for stateful firewall acceleration
Storage
GPUDirect Storage
Elastic block storage enabled by NVMe SNAP storage virtualization
NVMe-oF accelerator
VirtIO-blk accelerator
Networking
RoCE, Zero Touch RoCE
GPUDirect
VirtIO-net accelerator
Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing (ASAP2)
OVS and OVN acceleration
Management
Authenticated product life-cycle management
Telemetry agents
