The NVIDIA BlueField-3 networking platform – powering the latest data processing units (DPUs) and SuperNICs, and transforming data centre performance and efficiency – runs BlueField OS, an optimised Linux operating system (OS) derived from Ubuntu. With Ubuntu’s signature maintenance and support guarantees, the comprehensive Ubuntu Pro software infrastructure stack, and bespoke optimisation, the collaboration between NVIDIA and Canonical accelerates time to value for NVIDIA BlueField-3 users and elevates security.
What are DPUs?
DPUs are a relatively new technology that represents the third pillar of accelerated data centre processing units, alongside CPUs and GPUs. By offloading and accelerating a wide variety of complex networking, security and storage workloads to the DPU, enterprises can reduce server power consumption by up to 30% while freeing up CPU capacity for computation tasks.
NVIDIA, now shipping the third generation of its industry-leading BlueField…
