Nvidia announces new DPU, GPUs
Nvidia launched its GPU Technology Conference with a mix of hardware and software news, all of it centered around AI.
The first big hardware announcement is the BlueField-3 network data-processing unit (DPU) designed to offload network processing tasks from the CPU. BlueField comes from Nvidia's Mellanox acquisition, and is a SmartNIC fintelligent-networking card.
BlueField-3 has double the number of Arm processor cores as the prior generation product as well as more accelerators in general and can run workloads up to eight times faster than the prior generation. BlueField-3 can accelerate network workloads across the cloud and on premises for high-performance computing and AI workloads in a hybrid setting.