NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU
The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a 400 Gb/s infrastructure compute platform with line-rate processing of software-defined networking, storage, and cybersecurity. BlueField-3 combines powerful computing, high-speed networking, and extensive programmability to deliver software-defined, hardware-accelerated solutions for the most demanding workloads. From accelerated AI to hybrid cloud, high-performance computing to 5G wireless networks, BlueField-3 redefines the art of the possible.
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Specialists in moving data in data centers, DPUs are a new class of programmable processor, joining CPUs and GPUs as one of the three pillars of computing.
Specification
Specifications
Network Interfaces
> 1 or 2 ports with up to 400Gb/s
Ethernet or NDR InfiniBand
connectivity
PCI Express Interface
> 32 lanes of PCIe Gen 5.0
> PCIe switch bi-furcation of up to 16
downstream ports
Arm Cores
> Up to 16 Armv8.2+ A78 Hercules cores
(64-bit)
> 8MB L2 cache
> 16MB LLC system cache
Programmable Datapath Accelerator
> 16 cores, 256 threads
> Programmability through DOCA
> Heavy multi-threading applications
acceleration
DDR DIMM Support
> Dual DDR5 5600MT/s DRAM
controllers
> 32GB on-board DDR5
> ECC error protection support
Security
> Platform security
> Secure boot with hardware root-of-
trust
> Secure firmware update
> On-board flash encryption
> Device attestation
> Functional isolation layer
> Regular expression (RegEx) matching
processor
> IPsec/TLS/MACSec 128/256bit
data-in-motion encryption
> PSP security protocol (PSP)
> AES-GCM 128/256bit key
> AES-XTS 256/512bit data-at-rest
encryption
> Connection tracking for statefull
firewall
> Public key accelerator (PKA)
> True random number generator
(TRNG)
Advanced Timing and Synchronization
> IEEE 1588v2 (any profile)
> G.8273.2 Class C
> PTP hardware clock (PHC)
> Line rate hardware timestamp
> SyncE
> G.8262.1 (eEEC)
> Configurable PPS In and PPS Out
> Time triggered scheduling
> Time-based SDN acceleration
Boot Options
> Secure boot (RSA authenticated)
> Remote boot over Ethernet
> Remote boot over iSCSI
> PXE and UEFI
Storage
> BlueField SNAP - Elastic block storage
- NVMe™ and VirtIO-blk
> NVMe-oF™ and NVMe/TCP™
acceleration
> Decompression engine
> Erasure coding for RAID
implementation
Networking
> RoCE, Zero Touch RoCE
> ASAP² - Accelerated Switch and
Packet Processing® for SDN and VNF
acceleration
> Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
> VirtIO acceleration
> Overlay network acceleration
> VXLAN, Geneve, NVGRE
> Programmable flexible parser:
user-defined classification
> Connection tracking (L4 firewall)
> Flow mirroring, sampling and
statistics
> Header rewrite
> Hierarchical QoS
> Stateless TCP offloads
HPC/AI Accelerations
> HPC / AI All-to-All engine
> NVIDIA GPUDirect
> NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS)
> HPC MPI Tag Matching
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