GTC — NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA®
BlueField®-3 DPU, its next-generation data processing unit, to
deliver the most powerful software-defined networking, storage and
cybersecurity acceleration capabilities available for data centers.
The first DPU built for AI and accelerated computing,
BlueField-3 lets every enterprise deliver applications at any scale
with industry-leading performance and data center security. It is
optimized for multi-tenant, cloud-native environments, offering
software-defined, hardware-accelerated networking, storage,
security and management services at data-center scale.
One BlueField-3 DPU delivers the equivalent data center services
of up to 300 CPU cores, freeing up valuable CPU cycles to run
business-critical applications.
“Modern hyperscale clouds are driving a fundamental new
architecture for data centers,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO
of NVIDIA. “A new type of processor, designed to process data
center infrastructure software, is needed to offload and accelerate
the tremendous compute load of virtualization, networking, storage,
security and other cloud-native AI services. The time for BlueField
DPU has come.”
BlueField-3 and Morpheus Put Security
EverywhereBlueField-3 DPUs transform traditional
infrastructure into “zero-trust” environments — in which every data
center user is authenticated — by offloading and isolating data
center infrastructure from business applications. This secures
enterprises from cloud to core to edge while increasing efficiency
and performance. The industry’s first 400GbE/NDR DPU, BlueField-3
delivers unmatched networking performance. It features 10x the
accelerated compute power of the previous generation, with 16x Arm
A78 cores and 4x the acceleration for cryptography. BlueField-3 is
also the first DPU to support fifth-generation PCIe and offer
time-synchronized data center acceleration.
BlueField-3 provides real-time network visibility, detection and
response for cyber threats and acts as the monitoring, or
telemetry, agent for NVIDIA Morpheus, a state-of-the-art,
AI-enabled, cloud-native cybersecurity platform, also announced
today.
NVIDIA DOCA SDK 1.0BlueField-3 takes advantage
of NVIDIA DOCA™, the data-center-on-a-chip architecture that gives
developers a complete, open software platform for building
software-defined, hardware-accelerated networking, storage,
security and management applications running on BlueField DPUs.
Released today and available for download, DOCA includes a runtime
environment to create, compile and optimize applications for the
BlueField DPU; orchestration tools to provision, update and monitor
thousands of DPUs across the data center; as well as libraries,
APIs and a growing number of applications, such as deep packet
inspection and load balancing.
Ecosystem Adoption of NVIDIA DPUsLeading server
manufacturers Dell Technologies, Inspur, Lenovo and Supermicro are
integrating BlueField DPUs into their systems. Cloud service
providers across the world are using BlueField DPUs to accelerate
workloads, including Baidu, JD.com and UCloud. The BlueField
ecosystem is also expanding with BlueField-3 support from leading
hybrid cloud platform partners Canonical, Red Hat and VMware;
cybersecurity leaders Fortinet, Guardicore and storage providers
DDN®, NetApp and WekaIO; and edge platform providers Cloudflare, F5
and Juniper Networks.
“Red Hat continues to collaborate with NVIDIA as part of an open
ecosystem that accelerates innovation while providing access to the
latest hardware innovations for composable infrastructure,” said
Chris Wright, chief technology officer of Red Hat. “We recognize
the need to develop advanced solutions for network security and
automation and are excited to support BlueField DPUs and the NVIDIA
Morpheus AI framework via Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
OpenShift, industry-leading containers and Kubernetes-powered
hybrid cloud platform.”
“Our mutual customers are racing to harness the power of AI for
enterprise applications,” said Lee Caswell, vice president of
marketing for the Cloud Platform Business Unit at VMware. “The
vision of enterprise infrastructure powered by the VMware Cloud
Foundation and to be certified with the newly announced NVIDIA
BlueField-3 DPU shows customers a path to improved application
performance, a consistent operating model across virtualized and
bare-metal environments, along with a new model for delivering
zero-trust security without compromising performance.”
BlueField-2 Now AvailableBlueField-3 is fully
backward-compatible with BlueField-2, which provides unparalleled
performance for offloading, accelerating and isolating data center
workloads. BlueField-2 is generally available with dual 100Gb/s
Ethernet or InfiniBand network ports and up to eight Arm cores. The
BlueField-2 DPU includes accelerators for software-defined storage,
networking, security, streaming, line rate TLS/IPSEC cryptography,
precision timing for 5G telco and time-synchronized data centers
and other cloud infrastructure services.
AvailabilityBlueField-3 is expected to sample
in the first quarter of 2022.
Tune in to watch Huang’s GTC21 keynote address streaming live on
April 12 starting at 8:30 a.m. PT.
About NVIDIANVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market and
has redefined modern computer graphics, high performance computing
and AI. The company’s pioneering work in accelerated computing and
artificial intelligence is reshaping trillion-dollar industries,
such as transportation, healthcare and manufacturing, and fueling
the growth of many others. More information at
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Alex
ShapiroNVIDIA Corporation+1-415-608-5044ashapiro@nvidia.com
Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: the benefits, performance, features
and availability of BlueField DPUs, NVIDIA Morpheus and NVIDIA
DOCA; BlueField-3 enabling enterprises to deliver applications at
scale; hyperscale clouds driving new architecture for data centers;
new processors needed to accelerate the compute load of services;
the time for BlueField DPU having come; the server manufacturers
and cloud service providers using BlueField DPUs; how the BlueField
ecosystem is expanding; the benefits and impact of Red Hat’s
collaboration with NVIDIA; Red Hat supporting NVIDIA’s products and
platform; customers racing to harness the power of AI; and NVIDIA’s
and VMware’s products showing customers a path to improved
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