NVIDIA’s BlueField®-3 Data Processing Unit (DPU) is a third generation for data centers infrastructure on a chip, enabling the creation of software-defined, hardware-accelerated IT infrastructures across the cloud, core data center, and edge. With 400Gb/s Ethernet or NDR 400Gb/s InfiniBand network connectivity, BlueField-3 DPU accelerates software-defined networking, storage, security, and management, greatly improving data center performance and security.
It provides powerful computing and programmable acceleration engines in the I/O path, addressing the infrastructure needs of demanding applications while ensuring software backward compatibility through the NVIDIA DOCA™ software framework.