NVIDIA BlueField Networking Platform

Advanced infrastructure computing platform for powering the world’s data centers.

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 Industry Leaders Unveil Enterprise Infrastructure for AI

The NVIDIA AI Data Platform accelerates enterprise storage to generate insights in real time.

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NVIDIA Launches Blackwell Ultra Platform to Pave Way for Age of AI Reasoning

NVIDIA Quantum-X800 and Spectrum-X™ networking provides enhanced networking for AI infrastructure.

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NVIDIA Announces DGX SuperPOD Powered by Blackwell Ultra for AI Factories

NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ with DGX GB300 and DGX B300 systems feature NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for next-generation networking, accelerating performance, efficiency, and security in massive-scale AI data centers.

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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.

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Portfolio

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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.

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NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC

The BlueField-3 SuperNIC is an advanced network 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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NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU

The NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU provides innovative acceleration, security, and efficiency in every host. BlueField-2 combines the power of the NVIDIA ConnectX®-6 Dx with programmable Arm® cores and hardware offloads for software-defined networking, storage, security, and management workloads. BlueField-2 delivers superior performance, security, and reduced total cost of ownership for cloud computing platforms, enabling organizations to efficiently build and operate virtualized, containerized, and bare-metal infrastructures at massive scale.

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NVIDIA DOCA

Unlock data center innovation by enabling the rapid creation of applications and services for the BlueField networking platform with the NVIDIA DOCA™ software development kit.

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Networking for the Era of AI

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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Securely Deploy and Operate NVIDIA AI Clouds

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Do You Need To Update Your Data Center Network?

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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Secure Next-Generation Apps Over VMware Cloud Foundation With the BlueField-2 DPU.

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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Get a Software Perspective on DPU-Based Hardware Acceleration.

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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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

Energy efficiency heat map in a NVIDIA data center

NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Drive Data Center Efficiency

Learn how DPUs reduced power consumption in testing with key NVIDIA partners.

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DPU Power-Efficiency Research

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.

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Full-stack power-efficient data center network

Creating a Power-Efficient Data Center With DPUs

Learn about BlueField DPU power savings research and get answers to data center efficiency questions.

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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.

Security From the Perimeter to the Server

BlueField enables a zero-trust, security-everywhere architecture where security goes beyond the data center perimeter to the edge of every server.

Data Storage for Expanding Workloads

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.

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NVIDIA BlueField Networking scaling retrieval augmentation generation (RAG)

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.

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BlueField-Enhanced Servers Supercharge Generative AI for Enterprises

The world's leading system manufacturers are building AI-ready servers, featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, NVIDIA SuperNICs, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to help enterprises customize and deploy generative AI applications.

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HPC Data Centers with NVIDIA BlueField DPU use cases

Transform HPC Data Centers With NVIDIA BlueField

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.

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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.

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Chooses NVIDIA BlueField Data Center

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.

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