NVIDIA BlueField DPU Networking Platform

NVIDIA BlueField Platform

Advanced infrastructure computing platform for agentic AI factories.

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Overview

Transform the Data Center for the Next Frontier of AI With NVIDIA BlueField

The NVIDIA BlueField™ platform ignites unprecedented performance, efficiency, and innovation to power 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, accelerated infrastructure for any workload in any environment, ushering in a new era of agentic AI, where autonomous agents can safely reason, collaborate, and act at scale.

In-Silicon Security at AI Agent Speed

Powered by NVIDIA BlueField, NVIDIA Sentry delivers continuous out-of-band monitoring and in-silicon enforcement—quarantining threats in milliseconds, even if the host is compromised—running on NVIDIA OpenShell.

In-Silicon Security Layer for AI Agent Safety

NVIDIA Sentry extends software runtime controls into BlueField silicon—creating a layered foundation for continuous out-of-band monitoring and in-silicon enforcement for AI agents, as part of the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform.

Portfolio

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NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU

The NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU is an 800 Gb/s infrastructure platform for gigascale AI factories. Delivering powerful computing and accelerations for networking, data storage, and cybersecurity, it unlocks new levels of performance, eliminates data-movement bottlenecks, improves power efficiency, and increases 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.

NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Processor

The NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX storage processor is purpose-built to power AI storage platforms with accelerated AI-native data movement and in-silicon security, boosting throughput, efficiency, and scalability for next-generation AI infrastructure. Combining the NVIDIA Vera CPU and NVIDIA ConnectX™-9 networking, the storage processor serves as a storage-side CPU and data-path engine, orchestrating data access, metadata processing, and secure storage services directly in the input/output (IO) path.

NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU

The NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU is a 400 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.

Benefits

Explore the Benefits of NVIDIA BlueField

High-Performance AI Networking

BlueField delivers up to 800 Gb/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.

In-Silicon Security

BlueField enforces zero-trust security at the speed of AI, with real-time threat detection, isolation, and runtime protection, delivering robust security across distributed infrastructure, data platforms, workloads, and AI agents.

Accelerated AI Storage

BlueField accelerates data storage for AI with best-in-class remote direct-memory access (RDMA), Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), GPUDirect™ Storage, and support for block, file, and object, delivering high-performance access for AI data and inference context while boosting workload efficiency.

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.

NVIDIA Sentry

A Trusted Foundation for AI Agents

NVIDIA Sentry and BlueField™ bring in-silicon, out-of-band agent security running on NVIDIA OpenShell reference architecture.

Use Cases

Infrastructure for Scalable and Secure AI

Cloud-Scale AI

Securely deploy and operate multi-tenant AI infrastructure at scale.

NVIDIA BlueField delivers high-performance, multi-tenant AI cloud services by accelerating networking, storage, and security. This enables faster model access, lower latency, stronger tenant isolation, and higher GPU and CPU utilization for AI workloads at scale. It also provides in-silicon, out-of-band AI agent security monitoring and enforcement. BlueField powers accelerated infrastructure services that enable NVIDIA DSX™ AI factories.

Cloud-Scale AI Factory

Enterprise AI Factory

Deploy and scale agentic AI factories on premises.

NVIDIA BlueField powers the infrastructure services that keep on-premises AI factories running by offloading networking, storage, and security services from host CPUs. This delivers predictable performance, secure multi-tenant isolation, and efficient scaling of AI clusters for enterprise workloads. NVIDIA Sentry on BlueField provides out-of-band security for AI agents at scale.

Enterprise AI Factory

AI Grid

Scale distributed AI computing with secure, accelerated infrastructure.

NVIDIA BlueField offloads, accelerates, and isolates infrastructure services across AI grids. This allows multiple tenants and workloads to securely share high-performance infrastructure while delivering lower latency, higher utilization, and greater resilience for generative, agentic, and physical AI. BlueField adds out-of-band AI agent monitoring and millisecond-scale quarantine across shared infrastructure.

AI Grid

AI Storage

Accelerate AI-native storage infrastructure for AI agents.

With NVIDIA BlueField, storage partners can build AI-native data platforms that bring accelerated computing, networking, and in-silicon security. This transforms enterprise data into AI-ready intelligence by enabling long-lived context memory and high-performance data access for production AI factories.

AI Storage

Protecting Edge Computing

Secure operational technology and industrial control systems at the edge.

NVIDIA BlueField acts as a dedicated security processor within operational systems, delivering real-time visibility, zero-trust enforcement, and AI-powered threat detection without disrupting mission-critical operations. This lets organizations protect edge infrastructure while maintaining the availability, performance, and reliability of industrial processes.

Manufacturing robots being protected by edge computing
NVIDIA DOCA Enterprise-Ready Ecosystem of Libraries and Microservices

The Software Platform Powering the Agentic AI Factory

NVIDIA DOCA™ delivers enterprise-ready libraries and microservices for NVIDIA BlueField and ConnectX to accelerate, secure, and scale production AI workloads.

Partner Ecosystem

NVIDIA Networking Solutions Ecosystem

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NVIDIA BlueField FAQs

NVIDIA BlueField is a data processing unit (DPU). It is an advanced infrastructure processor for gigascale AI factories, providing powerful computing, up to 800 Gb/s throughput, with accelerated multi-tenant networking, in-silicon security, and AI-native storage. BlueField also provides out-of-band security for AI agents at scale, as part of the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform.

A DPU is a programmable infrastructure processor that combines a high-performance CPU, a high-speed network interface, and flexible hardware acceleration engines. NVIDIA BlueField is NVIDIA’s DPU—designed to offload, accelerate, and isolate infrastructure services from the host, including high-performance multi-tenant networking, AI-native storage, and in-silicon security.

NVIDIA DOCA is the unified software platform that unlocks the full potential of the NVIDIA BlueField DPU and NVIDIA ConnectX SuperNIC™ for agentic AI infrastructure. It provides SDKs, libraries, production-ready microservices, and orchestration frameworks to build and operate accelerated infrastructure services—including networking, AI-native storage, in-silicon security, telemetry, and lifecycle management. DOCA also enables autonomous agents to safely reason, collaborate, and act, giving organizations the foundation to deploy agents securely—at scale.

NVIDIA BlueField provides a hardware-isolated, host-independent security domain that operates outside the agent and host software it protects. This enables continuous out-of-band monitoring, in-silicon policy enforcement, and millisecond-scale quarantine for AI agents—maintaining an independent security boundary even if the host is compromised, as part of the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform.

NVIDIA BlueField provides the hardware-isolated, host-independent security domain that powers NVIDIA Sentry. From this independent domain, NVIDIA Sentry delivers continuous out-of-band agent monitoring, trusted telemetry, in-silicon policy enforcement, and millisecond-scale quarantine—as part of the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform.