NVIDIA BLUEFIELD-3 DPU

PROGRAMMABLE DATA CENTERINFRASTRUCTURE ON-A-CHIP

The NVIDIA® BlueField®-3 data processing unit (DPU) is the 3rd-generation datacenter infrastructure-on-a-chip that enables organizations to build software-defined,
hardware-accelerated IT infrastructures from cloud to core data center to edge. With
400Gb/s Ethernet or NDR 400Gb/s InfiniBand network connectivity, BlueField-3 DPU
offloads, accelerates, and isolates software-defined networking, storage, security,and management functions in ways that profoundly improve data center performance,efficiency, and security.

Portfolio> 1, 2, 4 ports with up to 400Gb/s connectivity> 16GB on-board DDR5 memory> Form factors: HHHL, FHHL
> M.2 / U.2 connectors options for direct
attached storage> 1GbE out-of-band management port

Providing powerful computing, and a broad range of programmable acceleration engines
in the I/O path, BlueField-3 is perfectly positioned to address the infrastructure needs ofthe most demanding applications, while delivering full software backward compatibility
through the NVIDIA DOCA™ software framework.
BlueField-3 DPUs transform traditional computing environments into secure andaccelerated virtual private clouds, allowing organizations to run application workloads insecure, multi-tenant environments. Decoupling data center infrastructure from businessapplications, BlueField-3 enhances data center security, streamlines operations andreduces total cost of ownership. Featuring NVIDIA’s in-network computing technology,
BlueField-3 enables the next generation of supercomputing platforms, delivering optimal
bare-metal performance and native support for multi-node tenant isolation.

BlueField-3 DPU – 2x 200Gb/s FHHL form factor

KEY SOFTWARE-DEFINED, HARDWARE-ACCELERATEDAPPLICATIONSCloud Networking

Storage

Security

HPC / AI

Telco and Edge

Cloud overlay, SDN
acceleration, NAT, loadbalancer, NFV, video
streaming

NVMe™ over Fabrics(NVMe-oF ™), NVMe/
TCP™, elastic storage,
hyper converged
infrastructure (HCI),
encryption, data integrity,
data deduplication, decompression, erasurecoding/RAID

Distributed nextgeneration firewall, IDS/IPS, root of trust, microsegmentation, DDOS
prevention

Cloud-native
supercomputing,multi-tenancy andsecurity, communication
accelerations

Cloud RAN, virtualizededge gateways, VNF
acceleration, edge
microservers

FEATURES
Network and Host Interfaces
Network Interfaces> Ethernet - 1, 2, 4 ports with up to 400 Gb/s
connectivity> InfiniBand - Single port of NDR (400Gb/s), ordual ports of NDR200 / HDR (200Gb/s)

PCI Express Interface		> 32 lanes of PCIe Gen 5.0> PCIe switch bi-furcation of up to 16
downstream ports> Non-transparent bridging (NTB) support

Compute and Memory> Functional isolation layer> Regular expression (RegEx) matchingprocessor> MACsec/IPsec/TLS data-in-motion
encryption> AES-GCM 128/256-bit key> AES-XTS 256/512-bit data-at-rest encryption> Connection tracking for stateful firewall> Public key accelerator (PKA)> RSA, Diffie-Hellman, DSA, ECC,EC-DSA, EC-DH> True random number generator (TRNG)> HPC MPI Tag Matching

Advanced Timing andSynchronization> 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

StorageBoot Options> Up to 16 Armv8.2+ A78 Hercules cores (64-bit)> 8MB L2 cache> 16MB LLC system cache> BlueField SNAP - Elastic block storage NVMe™ and VirtIO-blk> NVMe-oF ™ and NVMe/TCP™ acceleration> Decompression engine> Erasure coding for RAID implementation> M.2 / U.2 connectors for direct attachedstorage

Programmable Datapath Accelerator

Networking> 1GbE out-of-band management port
> NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus, and MCTP overPCIe> PLDM for Monitor and Control DSP0248> PLDM for Firmware Update DSP026> I2C interface for device control andconfiguration> SPI interface to flash> eMMC memory controller> UART> USB

Arm CPU Cores> 16 cores, 256 threads> Programmability through DOCA
> Heavy multi-threading applications
acceleration

DDR DIMM Support> Dual DDR5 5600MT/s DRAM controllers​> 16GB on-board DDR5
> ECC error protection support

Hardware Accelerations
Security> Secure boot with Public key accelerator(PKA) root-of-trust> Secure firmware update> Flash encryption> Cerberus compliant> Secure boot (RSA authenticated)> Remote boot over Ethernet> Remote boot over iSCSI> PXE and UEFIManagement> 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 definedclassification> 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)

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