The NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 data processing unit (DPU) is the world’s first data center infrastructure-on-a-chip optimized for traditional enterprises’ modern cloud workloads and high performance computing. It delivers a broad set of accelerated software-defined networking, storage, security, and management services with the ability to offload, accelerate and isolate data center infrastructure. With its 200Gb/s Ethernet or InfiniBand connectivity, the BlueField-2 DPU enables organizations to transform their IT infrastructures into state-of-the-art data centers that are accelerated, fully programmable, and armed with “zero trust” security to prevent data breaches and cyber attacks.

KEY FEATURES
Security
> Hardened isolation layer
> Hardware root of trust
> IPsec/TLS and AES-XTS encryption acceleration
> Connection tracking for stateful firewall and IDS/IPS
> Regular expression (RegEx) matching processor
Storage
> NVIDIA GPUDirect® Storage
> Elastic block storage enabled by BlueField SNAP storage virtualization
> Compression and decompression acceleration
> NVMe-oF acceleration
> VirtIO-blk acceleration
Networking
> RoCE, Zero Touch RoCE
> GPUDirect
> SDN acceleration powered by NVIDIA ASAP2 - Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing®
> Overlay network offloads including VXLAN
Management
> Authenticated product life-cycle management
> Telemetry agents
Portfolio
>Dual ports of up to 100Gb/s, or a single port of 200Gb/s Ethernet or InfiniBand
>16GB / 32GB of on-board DDR4 memory > Card form factors: HHHL, and FHHL
>1GbE out-of-band management port