A revisit on Nvidia GTC 2021. A worthwhile thought to think through.
NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU, the most powerful software-defined, hardware-accelerated data center on a chip. The #datacenter is the new unit of computing and the BlueField-2 DPU is now available to offload and accelerate the networking, storage, and security tasks within overtaxed data centers.
An interesting blog to explain what is the difference a DPU, CPU, and GPU?
A DPU is a new class of programmable processor that combines three key elements. A DPU is a system on a chip, or SOC, that combines:
An industry standard, high-performance, software programmable, multi-core CPU, typically based on the widely-used Arm architecture, tightly coupled to the other SOC components
A high-performance network interface capable of parsing, processing, and efficiently transferring data at line rate, or the speed of the rest of the network, to GPUs and CPUs
A rich set of flexible and programmable acceleration engines that offload and improve applications performance for AI and Machine Learning, security, telecommunications, and storage, among others.
For more information, do take a look at What’s a DPU? …And what’s the difference between a DPU, a CPU, and a GPU?
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