Programmable Data Center Infrastructure-on-a-Chip

NVIDIA® BlueField-3 DPU is the latest data processing unit that revolutionizes software-defined, hardware-accelerated IT. It delivers up to 400Gb/s Ethernet or InfiniBand connectivity, offloading and accelerating networking, storage, security, and management functions, resulting in enhanced performance, efficiency, and security. With In-Network Computing technology, BlueField-3 enables the next generation of supercomputing platforms with optimal bare-metal performance and Multi-tenant isolation support.

Network and Host Interfaces

• Ethernet-1, 2, 4 ports with up to 400Gb/s connectivity
  
• InfiniBand-Single port of NDR (400Gb/s), or dual ports of NDR200 / HDR (200Gb/s)
• 32 lanes of PCIe Gen 5.0
• PCIe switch bifurcation of up to 8 downstream ports
  

Compute and Memory

• Up to 16 Armv8.2+ A78 Hercules cores (32-bit)
  
• 16 cores, 256 threads, Programmability through DOCA
  
• Dual DDR5 5600MT/s DRAM controllers, 32GB on-board DDR5
  
• ECC error protection support
  

Hardware Accelerations Security

• Secure boot with Public key accelerator (PKA) root-of-trust
  
• Flash encryption
  
• AES-XTS 256/512-bit data-at-rest encryption
  
• BlueField SNAP-Elastic block storage- NVMe™ and VirtIO-blk
  
• NVMe-oF™ and NVMe/TCP™ acceleration
• M.2 / U.2 connectivity for direct attached storage
• RoCE, Zero Touch RoCE
• ASAP²-Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing® for SDN and VNF acceleration
  
• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
  
• Connection tracking (L4 firewall)
  
• 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-3 DPU datasheet