NVIDIA Mellanox BlueField-2 SmartNIC delivers advanced functionality, unmatched performance and agility for demanding workloads. By combining the ConnectX-6 Dx network adapter with an array of Arm cores, BlueField-2 delivers a perfect blend of hardware and software accelerations. BlueField-2 brings agile and high performance solutions for security, machine learning, cloud, edge computing and storage applications while reducing total cost of ownership.
BlueField-2 SmartNIC features the second generation BlueField-2 Data Processing Unit (DPU) - an innovative and high-performance programmable networking engine. The DPU integrates an array of eight powerful 64-bit Armv8 A72 cores interconnected by a coherent mesh with a DDR4 memory controller and a dual-port Ethernet network controller.
At the heart of BlueField-2 SmartNIC is an excellent ConnectX-6 Dx network adapter with unprecedented built-in hardware functionality, performance and resiliency. BlueField-2 hardware accelerations include advanced RDMA/RoCE capabilities as well as innovative cryptography, storage and networking accelerations. Relying on these built-in offloads, the BlueField-2 powerful array of Arm cores can be programmed for sophisticated custom accelerations and control path manipulations. BlueField-2 also benefits from the rich Arm ecosystem to deliver complete solutions to cloud operators and service providers.
