Engineering Architecture Brief

NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs) are programmable infrastructure processors that combine high-speed networking with Arm CPU cores and dedicated hardware accelerators for networking, storage, security, and virtualization. Designed for AI factories, cloud computing, enterprise data centers, and high-performance computing environments, BlueField DPUs offload infrastructure services from host CPUs, improving application performance, strengthening security isolation, and increasing overall infrastructure efficiency. The platform supports both Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity and integrates with the NVIDIA DOCA software framework for programmable acceleration.

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NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs)

Intelligent infrastructure processors that offload networking, storage, and security services to accelerate AI and cloud data centers.

System Metrics Table

Architecture Programmable Infrastructure Processor

Connectivity Ethernet and InfiniBand

Deployment AI Factories, Cloud Data Centers, HPC Clusters, Enterprise Infrastructure

Infrastructure Offload Networking, Storage, Security, and Virtualization

Management Software-Defined Infrastructure Management

Maximum Network Speed Up to 400Gb/s Ethernet or InfiniBand

Networking Ports Dual QSFP112

Onboard Memory 32GB DDR5 ECC

PCI Express PCIe Gen5 x16

Platform Type Data Processing Unit (DPU)

Power Efficiency CPU Offloading for Improved Energy Efficiency

Primary Workloads AI Infrastructure, Storage Acceleration, Network Acceleration, Cybersecurity

Processor 16-core Arm Architecture

Programmability Fully Programmable via NVIDIA DOCA

Security Features Hardware Root of Trust, Secure Boot, Crypto Acceleration

Software Framework NVIDIA DOCA SDK

Storage 40GB pSLC eMMC + 128GB SSD

Virtualization Support SR-IOV, VirtIO, Software-Defined Networking