NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit

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+Advanced infrastructure computing platform for powering the world's data centers.
+Advanced infrastructure computing platform for powering the world's AI data centers.
 - [Introduction]()
 - [News]()
 - [Portfolio]()
 - [Networking for AI]()
 - [Resources]()
+- [Power Efficiency]()
 - [Benefits]()
+- [Ecosystems]()
+- [Ecosystem]()
 - [Introduction]()
 - [News]()
 - [Portfolio]()
 - [Networking for AI]()
 - [Resources]()
+- [Power Efficiency]()
 - [Benefits]()
+- [Ecosystems]()
+- [Ecosystem]()
 - [Introduction]()
 - [News]()
 - [Portfolio]()
 - [Networking for AI]()
 - [Resources]()
+- [Power Efficiency]()
 - [Benefits]()
+- [Ecosystems]()
+- [Ecosystem]()
 ## Introduction
+## Transform the Data Center With NVIDIA BlueField
+## Transform the Data Center for AI With NVIDIA BlueField
+The NVIDIA® BlueField® networking platform ignites unprecedented innovation for modern data centers and supercomputing clusters. 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.
+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 Launches Blackwell Ultra Platform to Pave Way for Age of AI Reasoning
+### NVIDIA Brings Cybersecurity to Every AI Factory
+NVIDIA Quantum-X800 and Spectrum-X™ networking provides enhanced networking for AI infrastructure.
+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.
+### NVIDIA Announces DGX SuperPOD Powered by Blackwell Ultra for AI Factories
+NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ with DGX GB300 or DGX B300 systems feature NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for next-generation networking, accelerating performance, efficiency, and security in massive-scale AI data centers.
 ### 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 Networking Platforms
+## 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 400 gigabits per second (Gb/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.
+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 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.
+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 BlueField-2 DPU
+## NVIDIA DOCA Microservices
+The NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU provides innovative acceleration, security, and efficiency in every host. BlueField-2 combines the power of the NVIDIA ConnectX®-6 Dx with programmable Arm® cores and hardware offloads for software-defined networking, storage, security, and management workloads. BlueField-2 delivers superior performance, security, and reduced total cost of ownership for cloud computing platforms, enabling organizations to efficiently build and operate virtualized, containerized, and bare-metal infrastructures at massive scale.
+Prebuilt, composable microservices run natively on NVIDIA BlueField to accelerate AI factories with networking, cybersecurity, data acceleration, and orchestration.
+## NVIDIA DOCA
+Unlock data center innovation by enabling the rapid creation of applications and services for the BlueField networking platform with the NVIDIA DOCA™ software development kit.
 ### 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
 ### 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.
 Featured
+## Power Efficiency
+## Benefits
+## Power Efficiency With DPUs
+## Explore the Benefits of NVIDIA BlueField
+### NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Drive Data Center Efficiency
+### High-Performance AI Networking
+Learn how DPUs reduced power consumption in testing with key NVIDIA partners.
+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.
+### DPU Power-Efficiency Research
+### AI Runtime Security
+NVIDIA DPUs can reduce power consumption by 30%, saving $56 million for large data centers. Find all of NVIDIA's test results on the power consumption of various DPUs.
+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.
+### Creating a Power-Efficient Data Center With DPUs
+### Accelerated Storage
+for AI
+Learn about BlueField DPU power savings research and get answers to data center efficiency questions.
+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.
+## Benefits
+### Elastic AI Infrastructure
+## Explore the Benefits of BlueField
+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.
+### Peak AI Workload Efficiency
+## Technology Environments
+BlueField accelerates AI performance with robust RoCE networking, GPUDirect® RDMA and RoCE, direct data placement, and programmable congestion control, creating an exceptionally fast and efficient network infrastructure for AI.
+## Featured BlueField Technology Environments
+### Security From the Perimeter to the Server
+### BlueField-Enhanced Servers Supercharge AI and Industrial Workloads for Enterprises
+BlueField enables a zero-trust, security-everywhere architecture where security goes beyond the data center perimeter to the edge of every server.
+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.
+### Data Storage for Expanding Workloads
+### Validated Designs for Enterprise AI Factories
+With NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), GPUDirect Storage, encryption, elastic storage, data integrity, decompression, and deduplication, BlueField provides high-performance storage access with latencies for remote storage that rival direct-attached storage.
+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.
+### High-Performance Cloud Networking
+### AI Cybersecurity Powered by NVIDIA BlueField
+BlueField is a powerful cloud infrastructure processor, delivering up to 400Gb/s of Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity for both traditional applications and modern workloads, while freeing host CPU cores to run applications instead of infrastructure tasks.
+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.
+## Technology Environments
+## Featured BlueField Technology Environments
 ### 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.
+### Scale Enterprise RAG with NVIDIA BlueField Networking
+In the era of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) empowers enterprises to capitalize on their data. Learn how BlueField enables businesses to deploy scalable and efficient RAG workflows.
+### BlueField-Enhanced Servers Supercharge Generative AI for Enterprises
+The world's leading system manufacturers are building AI-ready servers, featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, NVIDIA SuperNICs, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to help enterprises customize and deploy generative AI applications.
 ### 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.
+### Boost Cybersecurity With the NVIDIA Morpheus AI Framework
+NVIDIA Morpheus is an AI application framework that provides cybersecurity developers with a highly optimized AI pipeline and pretrained AI capabilities that bring a new level of security to data centers. The Morpheus framework provides highly scalable and adaptive data ingest, pretrained AI models, and policy control functions, enabling cybersecurity developers to detect and remediate security threats.
 ### 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
 . Systems
 . Cloud
 . Infrastructure
+. Security
+. Cybersecurity
 . Storage
+. Services