DATA PROCESSING UNIT
Data processing unit combining Arm cores with high-speed networking
Data processing unit combining Arm cores with high-speed networking
Hardware accelerators for networking, storage and security offload
AI & HPC · Data Center · Telecommunications
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NVIDIA BlueField is a publicly named data processing unit architecture.
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BlueField is NVIDIA’s data processing unit: Arm cores, high-speed Ethernet/InfiniBand and hardware accelerators for networking, storage and security offload, isolated from the host CPU.
Official NVIDIA technical writing defines a DPU’s mission as offload, accelerate and isolate infrastructure workloads, combining programmable Arm cores with high-speed networking and hardware accelerators for networking, storage and security. BlueField sits beside the host CPU rather than replacing GPU compute. This listing records the DPU architecture rather than BlueField-2 and BlueField-3 as two rows, and rather than ConnectX NICs as extra listings. NVLink, already listed, is GPU interconnect, not this infrastructure processor. Core counts and network rates should be confirmed on NVIDIA’s current BlueField documentation.
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Data processing unit combining Arm cores with high-speed networking
Hardware accelerators for networking, storage and security offload
Official materials describe offload, accelerate and isolate as the DPU mission
Distinct from NVLink and from GPU compute architectures
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