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, power efficiency, and AI.

News

BlueField In the News

NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Platform Launches With Broad Industry Adoption

NVIDIA STX is a modular AI storage reference design co‑developed with leading providers and built on NVIDIA accelerated compute, networking, and AI software. Learn how it powers NVIDIA BlueField‑4–based STX context memory storage that supercharges agentic AI and AI data infrastructure.

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NVIDIA Brings AI-Powered Cybersecurity to World’s Critical Infrastructure

Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens, and Xage Security are integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to advance OT cybersecurity, embedding real-time, zero-trust protection directly into industrial infrastructure for safer, more resilient operations.

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NVIDIA BlueField-4 Powers AI-Native Storage Infrastructure for the Next Frontier of AI

NVIDIA BlueField-4 powers the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, a new class of AI-native data storage infrastructure designed to accelerate and scale gigascale agentic inference.

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

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

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Portfolio

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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, minimizes 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—powering robust, agile, and trusted AI data centers.

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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.

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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.

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NVIDIA DOCA Microservices

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

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Platform Technologies

BlueField Platform for AI Networking

NVIDIA Context Memory Storage Platform

NVIDIA CMX is an AI‑native context tier for long‑context, multi‑turn, and agentic AI inference that is powered by NVIDIA BlueField‑4 and NVIDIA Spectrum‑X™ Ethernet, to extend GPU memory with a shared, pod‑level context tier optimized for ephemeral KV cache.

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Advancing the Enterprise AI Factory with NVIDIA BlueField

BlueField-powered cybersecurity and acceleration solutions are now part of the AI Factory Validated Design.

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NVIDIA Enterprise AI factory validated design with NVIDIA BlueField DPU

Resources

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Cloud Networking
Network Infrastructure
Ecosystem
Developer
Cloud-Native Supercomputing

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Securely Deploy and Operate NVIDIA AI Clouds

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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NVIDIA BlueField Platform

Introduction

Transform the Data Center for AI With NVIDIA BlueField

News

BlueField In the News

NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Platform Launches With Broad Industry Adoption

NVIDIA Brings AI-Powered Cybersecurity to World’s Critical Infrastructure

NVIDIA BlueField-4 Powers AI-Native Storage Infrastructure for the Next Frontier of AI

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

Portfolio

Explore NVIDIA’s Portfolio of BlueField Platforms

NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPU

NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU

NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC

NVIDIA DOCA Microservices

BlueField Platform for AI Networking

NVIDIA Context Memory Storage Platform

Advancing the Enterprise AI Factory with NVIDIA BlueField

Resources

Discover More Ways to Transform Your Data Center

Securely Deploy and Operate NVIDIA AI Clouds

Do You Need To Update Your Data Center Network?

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

Get a Software Perspective on DPU-Based Hardware Acceleration.

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

Benefits

Explore the Benefits of NVIDIA BlueField

High-Performance AI Networking

AI Runtime Security

Accelerated Storage for AI

Elastic AI Infrastructure

Technology Environments

Featured BlueField Technology Environments

BlueField-Enhanced Servers Supercharge AI and Industrial Workloads for Enterprises

Validated Designs for Enterprise AI Factories

AI Cybersecurity Powered by NVIDIA BlueField

NVIDIA and Industry Leaders Unveil Enterprise Infrastructure for AI

Transform HPC Data Centers With NVIDIA BlueField

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Chooses NVIDIA BlueField Networking

Ecosystem

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Accelerated Storage
for AI