Programmable Data Center Infrastructure-on-a-Chip

NVIDIA® BlueField-2 DPU is a chip that transforms data center infrastructures into state-of-the-art, high-performance data centers optimized for modern cloud workloads and high-performance computing. It delivers a wide range of accelerated software-defined services with "zero trust" security to prevent data breaches and cyber attacks. Developers can create applications and services using the NVIDIA DOCA™ software framework for breakthrough data center performance, efficiency, and security.

Network and Host Interfaces

• Ethernet - Dual ports of 10/25/50/100Gb/s, or a single port of 200Gb/s 
  
• InfiniBand - Dual ports of EDR / HDR100, or single port of HDR PCI Express Interface
  
• 8 or 16 lanes of PCIe Gen 4.0 
  
• PCIe switch bi-furcation with 8 downstream ports
  

Compute and Memory

• Up to 8 Armv8 A72 cores (64-bit) pipeline
  
• Single DDR4 DRAM controller
  
• 16GB / 32GB of on-board DDR4
  
• ECC error protection support
  

Hardware Accelerations Security

• Secure boot with hardware root-of-trust
  
• Secure firmware update 
  
• AES-XTS 256/512-bit data-at-rest encryption
  
• BlueField SNAP - NVMe™ and VirtIO-blk 
  
• NVMe-oF™ acceleration
  
• Compression and decompression acceleration
  
• RoCE, Zero Touch RoCE 
• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
  
• VMware NetQueue support
  
• HPC / AI All-to-All engine
• NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS)
  
• Secure boot (RSA authenticated)
  
• Remote boot over Ethernet
  
• Remote boot over iSCSI
  
• 1GbE out-of-band management port
  

• NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU datasheet