Oracle Cloud deploys NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has selected the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU as the latest addition to its networking stack, offering OCI customers a new option for offloading data center tasks from CPUs.

BlueField-3 is NVIDIA’s third-generation data processing unit BlueField-3 is the foundation of the data center control plane that delivers cloud and AI services. The company cites power reductions of up to 24% on servers using NVIDIA BlueField DPUs compared to servers without DPUs. The DPUs support Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity at up to 400 Gbps and provide 4x more compute power, up to 4x faster crypto acceleration, 2x faster storage processing and 4x more memory bandwidth compared to the previous generation of BlueField.

“The age of AI demands cloud data center infrastructures to support extraordinary computing requirements,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “NVIDIA’s BlueField-3 DPU enables this advance, transforming traditional cloud computing environments into accelerated, energy-efficient and secure infrastructure to process the demanding workloads of generative AI.”

“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers enterprise customers nearly unparalleled accessibility to AI and scientific computing infrastructure with the power to transform industries,” said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs are a key component of our strategy to provide state-of-the-art, sustainable cloud infrastructure with extreme performance.”