Thursday, November 3, 2022

NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Drive Data Center Efficiency

The numbers are in, and they paint a picture of data centers going a deeper shade of green, thanks to energy-efficient networks accelerated with data processing units (DPUs). A suite of tests run with help from Ericsson, RedHat and VMware show power reductions up to 24% on servers using NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs. In one case, they delivered 54x the performance of CPUs.