NVIDIA BlueField Platform

NVIDIA BlueField Platform

Advanced infrastructure computing platform for powering the world’s AI data centers.

Introduction

Transform the Data Center for AI With NVIDIA BlueField

The NVIDIA® BlueField® platform ignites unprecedented performance, efficiency, and innovation—powering AI factories, the new class of purpose-built data centers for AI. With its robust compute power and integrated software-defined hardware accelerators for networking, storage, and security, BlueField creates a secure and accelerated infrastructure for any workload in any environment, ushering in a new era of accelerated computing and AI.

News

BlueField In the News

NVIDIA Launches BlueField-4: The Processor Powering the Operating System of AI Factories

Discover how NVIDIA BlueField-4 platform and DOCA™ microservices are powering gigascale AI factories with breakthrough networking, security, and data accelerations.

NVIDIA and Industry Leaders Unveil Enterprise Infrastructure for AI

The NVIDIA AI Data Platform accelerates enterprise storage to generate insights in real time.

NVIDIA Brings Cybersecurity to Every AI Factory

NVIDIA DOCA Argus delivers AI runtime security for AI factories, combining NVIDIA BlueField acceleration with seamless enterprise integration to secure workloads at scale—without compromising performance.

Leading Partners Adopt NVIDIA Cybersecurity AI to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure

The NVIDIA cybersecurity AI platform integrates NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and the NVIDIA Morpheus software framework to power next-generation cyber defenses from Armis, Check Point, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, and WWT.

Portfolio

Explore NVIDIA’s Portfolio of BlueField Platforms

NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU

The NVIDIA BlueField-4 is an 800Gb/s infrastructure platform for gigascale AI factories. Delivering six times the compute of its predecessor and featuring accelerations for networking, data storage, and cybersecurity, it unlocks new levels of performance, efficiency, and scale for AI infrastructure. Supported by a growing ecosystem of applications, BlueField-4 enables service providers and enterprises to deliver secure multi-tenant networking, rapid data access, real-time threat detection, and high-performance inference—powering robust, agile, and trusted AI data centers.

NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU

The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a 400Gb/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.

NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC

The BlueField-3 SuperNIC is an advanced network NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU accelerator, purpose-built for supercharging hyperscale AI workloads. Designed for network-intensive, massively parallel computing, the BlueField-3 SuperNIC provides up to 400Gb/s of remote direct-memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) network connectivity between GPU servers, optimizing peak AI workload efficiency. Creating a new era of AI cloud computing, the BlueField-3 SuperNIC enables secure, multi-tenant data center environments with deterministic and isolated performance between jobs and tenants.

NVIDIA DOCA

NVIDIA DOCA Microservices

Prebuilt, composable microservices run natively on NVIDIA BlueField to accelerate AI factories with networking, cybersecurity, data acceleration, and orchestration.

Networking for the Era of AI

NVIDIA Ethernet SuperNICs emerge as a new class of network accelerators, purpose-built to supercharge network-intensive, massively distributed AI computing workloads.

Resources

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Securely Deploy and Operate NVIDIA AI Clouds

Powered by NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for NVIDIA AI systems.

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Do You Need To Update Your Data Center Network?

Normally, data center networks are updated when new applications or servers are installed in the infrastructure. But independent of new server and application infrastructure forcing an update, there are other areas to consider. Learn the three questions to ask when assessing if you need to update your network.

 

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Secure Next-Generation Apps Over VMware Cloud Foundation With the BlueField-2 DPU.

The integration of the NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU within the next-generation VMware Cloud Foundation creates a powerful enterprise cloud platform with best-in-class security, operational efficiency, and ROI. It’s a secure architecture for the modern enterprise private cloud leveraging VMware and accelerated by both DPU and GPU. The accelerators provide security, lower TCO, higher performance, and new functionality that wasn’t possible before.

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Get a Software Perspective on DPU-Based Hardware Acceleration.

Data processing units (DPUs) provide greater data center efficiency, but low-level-programming requirements have hindered broad adoption. NVIDIA’s DOCA software framework, which abstracts the programming of BlueField DPUs, removes this obstacle. Hear from Linley Group analyst Bob Wheeler how customers will be able to program future converged DPU+GPU hardware using the combination of DOCA and CUDA.

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Deploy NVIDIA Cloud-Native Architecture for Bare-Metal, Secure Supercomputing.

High-performance computing (HPC) and AI have driven supercomputers into wide commercial use. They’ve become the primary data processing engines for research, scientific discoveries, and even product development. When designing a supercomputer architecture, the goal is twofold: to mitigate factors that impact performance and to accelerate application performance whenever possible.

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Benefits

Explore the Benefits of NVIDIA BlueField

High-Performance AI Networking

BlueField delivers up to 800Gb/s connectivity with purpose-built accelerations for software-defined networking and distributed routing—freeing CPU cores while simplifying operations with integrated overlay and L3 underlay networking.

AI Runtime Security

BlueField enforces zero-trust security with real-time threat detection and runtime protection—delivering pervasive security across every node, from infrastructure to workloads and applications, extending beyond the perimeter while isolating workloads and streamlining operations.

Accelerated Storage
for AI

BlueField accelerates data storage for AI with NVMe-oF, GPUDirect® Storage, and support for block, file, and object—delivering elastic performance that makes networked storage behave like direct-attached—boosting workload efficiency and streamlining management.

Elastic AI Infrastructure

BlueField acts as an infrastructure controller with multi-service architecture and built-in service function chaining—enabling elastic, rapid provisioning with Kubernetes integration and extending seamlessly across diverse cloud environments.

Technology Environments

Featured BlueField Technology Environments

BlueField-Enhanced Servers Supercharge AI and Industrial Workloads for Enterprises

NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers, built by global partners, combine NVIDIA Blackwell performance with BlueField acceleration—empowering enterprises to build AI factories and drive diverse workloads with breakthrough speed, scale, and energy savings.

Validated Designs for Enterprise AI Factories

Discover NVIDIA-validated AI factory designs that integrate BlueField networking acceleration—delivering high-performance, secure, and scalable infrastructure to streamline deployment and accelerate enterprise AI workloads with confidence.

AI Cybersecurity Powered by NVIDIA BlueField

Build accelerated, AI-driven defenses with NVIDIA BlueField—enhancing threat detection, strengthening zero-trust security, and protecting sensitive data with scalable, secure infrastructure for modern AI data centers.

NVIDIA and Industry Leaders Unveil Enterprise Infrastructure for AI

The NVIDIA AI Data Platform revolutionizes enterprise storage, empowering industry leaders to build distributed agentic systems with accelerated AI data processing, enabling businesses to unlock the full value of their data.

Transform HPC Data Centers With NVIDIA BlueField

Providing powerful computing, high-speed InfiniBand networking, and highly programmable engines, the NVIDIA BlueField networking platform ignites unprecedented innovation and performance for modern scientific computing applications.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Chooses NVIDIA BlueField Networking

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is advancing sustainability goals by using BlueField DPUs to offload data center tasks from CPUs, achieving greater performance, efficiency, and security.

Ecosystem

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