Oracle’s OCI adds Nvidia BlueField-3 DPU to networking stack

At GTC, Nvidia (NVDA) announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI, has selected the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU as the latest addition to its networking stack, offering OCI customers "a powerful new option for offloading data center tasks from CPUs." Nvidia said: "BlueField-3 is NVIDIA’s third-generation data processing unit that enables enterprises to build software-defined, hardware-accelerated IT infrastructures from cloud to data center to edge. It improves performance, efficiency and security in data centers by offloading, accelerating and isolating infrastructure workloads, thus freeing expensive CPU cores to run business applications. OCI offers a wide range of cloud infrastructure and platform services to its customers to build and run applications and services in the cloud or on premises. By utilizing BlueField-3, OCI is extending its long-established approach of offloading data center infrastructure tasks from CPUs."