NVIDIA MBF2M516A-CEEOT BlueField-2 SmartNIC E-Series DPU 100GbE Dual-Port QSFP56 PCIe 4 x16 Crypto Disabled 16GB On-Board DDR 1GbE OOB Management Tall Bracket FHHL

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

• NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU datasheet