SmartNIC

Faster and safer AI systems
The NVIDIA Fusion Accelerator adopts a unique and efficient architecture that combines the powerful performance of NVIDIA GPUs, as well as stronger network functionality and higher security of NVIDIA Smart Network Cards (SmartNICs) and Data Processors (DPUs). Provide excellent performance and higher security for I/O intensive workloads accelerated by GPU, including various workloads from the data center to the edge.
1. Ultra strong GPU performance
NVIDIA® ConnectX® The series of smart network cards can provide first-class network performance, advanced hardware uninstallation and acceleration functions. NVIDIA BlueField® DPU combines the performance of ConnectX with the programmability of a complete on-chip infrastructure. By offloading, accelerating, and isolating network, storage, and security services, BlueField DPU can provide a secure and accelerated infrastructure for any workload in any environment.
2. Enhanced network and security
NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU provides innovative acceleration capabilities, as well as excellent security and efficiency for each host. BlueField-2 incorporates NVIDIA ConnectX®- High performance and programmable ARM® with 6 Dx; The combination of core and hardware offloading functions is used for software defined storage, network construction, security, and management workloads.
3. Achieve higher levels of data efficiency
The NVIDIA Fusion Accelerator includes an integrated PCIe switch that can transfer data between the GPU and the network without the need to flow through the server PCIe system. This helps to achieve higher levels of performance, efficiency, and security in the data center, thereby better handling IO intensive workloads accelerated by GPUs.
Building a stronger and safer enterprise
1. Faster 5G
NVIDIA Aerial™ It is an application framework used to build high-performance, software defined, cloud native 5G applications to meet the growing needs of consumers. It can accelerate signal and data processing for 5G Radio Area Network (RAN) through GPU. The NVIDIA fusion accelerator provides a powerful platform for running 5G applications. Because data does not need to flow through the host PCIe system, processing latency is significantly reduced. The resulting higher throughput also enables each server to achieve higher user density.
2. Network Security Based on AI
The fusion accelerator has opened up a series of new possibilities for AI based network security and network construction. Users can use the NVIDIA Morpheus application framework to program the ARM core of the DPU to perform advanced network functions accelerated by the GPU, such as threat detection, data leakage prevention, and abnormal behavior analysis. GPU processing capacity can be directly used for network traffic with high data transmission rate, and data can be directly transmitted between GPU and DPU to achieve better isolation effect.
3. Accelerate 5G Edge AI
NVIDIA AI-on-5G technology includes NVIDIA EGX™ Platform, NVIDIA Aerial SDK for software defined 5G virtual RAN (vRAN), and various enterprise level AI frameworks, such as NVIDIA Isaac™ And NVIDIA Metropolis™ Waiting for SDK. This platform enables Edge device (such as cameras, industrial sensors and robots) to use AI and communicate with the data center through 5G. The fusion accelerator can provide all of these functions in a single enterprise level server without the need to deploy more expensive specialized systems. The fusion accelerator used to accelerate 5G signal processing can also be used for edge AI, while NVIDIA's multi instance GPU (MIG) technology can share GPUs among multiple different applications.
4. Balanced and optimized design
By integrating GPUs, DPUs, and PCIe switches into a single device, architectural balance is achieved. In systems that require multiple GPUs and multiple DPUs, the fusion accelerator can avoid devices competing for server PCIe system resources, so performance will scale linearly with the increase of the number of devices. In addition, fusion accelerators can provide more predictable performance. Merging these components onto a physical card can also improve space and energy efficiency. Fusion accelerators can significantly simplify deployment and subsequent maintenance, especially for large-scale systems with a large number of servers installed.
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