NVIDIA BLUEFIELD-3 DPU, 16-Core ARM, 32GB DDR5, Dual QSFP112, PCIe Gen5, Crypto Options, Enterprise Networking & InfiniBand

NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a third-generation data-center infrastructure-on-a-chip, engineered to offload, accelerate, and secure critical workloads across cloud, enterprise, HPC, and edge environments. Delivering up to 400Gb/s Ethernet or NDR InfiniBand connectivity, it shifts networking, storage, security, and management tasks away from server CPUs into dedicated acceleration hardware, significantly improving performance and reducing data-center TCO.

Powered by up to 16 Armv8.2+ A78 cores, programmable datapath accelerators, and advanced hardware security engines, BlueField-3 enables fully software-defined, multi-tenant, zero-trust data-center architectures. It supports high-performance NVMe-oF storage, advanced SDN/NFV acceleration, distributed security services, and AI/HPC communication offloads all programmable through the NVIDIA DOCA software framework for full backward compatibility and application portability.

KEY FEATURES:

• Network Connectivity: Up to 400Gb/s Ethernet or NDR InfiniBand
• CPU Complex: Up to 16× Armv8.2+ A78 Hercules cores
• Memory System: Dual DDR5 controllers + 16GB onboard DDR5 with ECC
• Programmable Datapath: 16-core / 256-thread accelerator for SDN & NFV
• Security Engine: Secure boot, PKA root-of-trust, MACsec/IPsec/TLS, flash encryption
• Storage Offload: NVMe-oF, NVMe/TCP, decompression, erasure coding, SNAP storage
• Networking Offload: RoCE, Zero-Touch RoCE, ASAP² SDN acceleration, VXLAN/GENEVE/NVGRE
• Virtualisation: SR-IOV, VirtIO acceleration, overlay offloads, connection tracking
• HPC / AI Support: GPUDirect, GPUDirect Storage, MPI tag matching
• Timing Sync: IEEE 1588v2, G.8273.2 Class C, SyncE, hardware timestamps
• Host Interface: 32-lane PCIe Gen5 with NTB and bifurcation support
• Form Factors: HHHL, FHHL, and M.2/U.2 storage-attach options
  

PRODUCT SPECIFICATION:

APPLICATIONS:

Cloud Networking:

The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is purpose-built to transform cloud networking by offloading complex network virtualization tasks directly into hardware. It accelerates SDN overlays, including VXLAN, GENEVE, and NVGRE, delivering wire-speed encapsulation and decapsulation without burdening the host server. Its ASAP² (Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing) engine provides line-rate packet processing, enabling high-performance virtual routers, NAT, load balancers, and deep packet operations. This allows hyperscale cloud providers to run multi-tenant environments with significantly lower latency and improved scalability. By offloading the entire SDN/NFV data path from the CPU, BlueField-3 frees system resources for application workloads, allowing cloud infrastructures to operate more efficiently and handle higher user density per host

Storage & Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI):

BlueField-3 includes powerful storage acceleration engines that transform how data centers handle modern storage workloads. It supports high-speed SAN, NAS, and NVMe-based infrastructures through NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF), NVMe/TCP, and in-hardware storage virtualization. Features such as hardware-accelerated decompression, erasure coding for RAID implementations, elastic block storage (SNAP), and direct M.2/U.2 attachments provide unmatched flexibility for both scale-up and scale-out deployments. This makes it ideal for hyper-converged infrastructure platforms where compute, storage, and networking must work together seamlessly. BlueField-3 ensures minimal latency, consistent performance, and high I/O throughput, enabling cloud-native storage clusters, all-flash arrays, and disaggregated storage systems to perform at peak efficiency

Security & Zero-Trust Architecture:

Security is a foundational element of BlueField-3. Equipped with a PKA-based hardware root-of-trust, secure boot, flash encryption, and a comprehensive set of inline encryption engines (MACsec, IPsec, TLS), it provides an end-to-end zero-trust framework. BlueField-3 offloads encryption, deep packet inspection, RegEx-based pattern matching, stateful firewall tracking, intrusion detection (IDS), intrusion prevention (IPS), and micro-segmentation entirely to hardware. This allows enterprises to build distributed security architectures that operate at line rate, without disrupting workload performance. For multi-tenant cloud environments, this capability ensures strong isolation between tenants and prevents lateral movement attacks. Its hardware security is fully Cerberus compliant, making it suitable for government, telecom, and regulated industries requiring strict data protection

HPC & AI Communication:

BlueField-3 plays a critical role in accelerating communication for AI training clusters and HPC supercomputing environments. It supports NVIDIA GPUDirect, GPUDirect Storage, and an advanced HPC/AI All-to-All engine, enabling GPUs and storage devices to exchange data directly across nodes with minimal overhead. Features like MPI tag matching, precise timing synchronisation (IEEE 1588v2), and hardware timestamping ensure deterministic communication across thousands of nodes. These capabilities reduce latency, eliminate bottlenecks, and significantly accelerate distributed training, simulation, and modelling workloads. BlueField-3 integrates seamlessly into modern AI data pipelines where every microsecond counts, providing consistent performance across large multi-node clusters

Telecom, Telco Cloud & Edge Computing:

The shift to 5G and cloud-native RAN architectures requires deterministic networking, hardware isolation, and massive scalability all strengths of BlueField-3. It accelerates VNF workloads, Cloud RAN baseband processing data paths, and edge-gateway functions by offloading SDN/NFV operations into dedicated hardware engines. With advanced timing synchronisation (G.8273.2 Class C, SyncE, IEEE 1588v2), BlueField-3 ensures accurate real-time clocking essential for telecom networks. It also provides secure edge computing through isolation layers, inline encryption, and per-tenant network segmentation. This allows telecom operators to deploy high-performance microservers at the edge, enabling low-latency services such as video delivery, IoT aggregation, and private 5G infrastructure with enhanced security and reliability

PRODUCT DETAILS:

ADVANCED FEATURES:

• Supports up to 400GbE / NDR for ultra-low-latency AI, HPC, and cloud workloads.
• 16 Arm A78 cores for offloading networking, storage, and security processing.
• Programmable datapath (DOCA-based) for SDN, NFV, and packet acceleration.
• DDR5 ECC memory architecture for high bandwidth and reliability.
• Advanced security with secure boot, hardware root-of-trust, and full crypto offloads.
• Line-rate RegEx DPI for IDS/IPS and deep packet filtering.
• NVMe-oF & NVMe/TCP offload with SNAP storage acceleration.
• Support for M.2/U.2 NVMe devices for local SSD expansion.
• ASAP² SDN offload for virtual switching and NFV acceleration.
• Hardware offload for VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE overlays.
• High-performance SR-IOV, VirtIO, TCP offload, and QoS.
• HPC/AI optimised with GPUDirect and MPI acceleration.
• Precision timing: 1588v2, SyncE, PPS in/out.
• Available in FHHL / HHHL card formats with 1/2/4-port options.
• Full management stack: 1GbE OOB, NC-SI, PLDM, MCTP, I2C, SPI, UART.
• Powered by the NVIDIA DOCA unified acceleration framework.
  

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