NVIDIA Converged Accelerators

Where powerful performance, enhanced networking, and robust security come together—in one package.

Faster, More Secure AI Systems

In one unique, efficient architecture, NVIDIA converged accelerators combine the powerful performance of NVIDIA GPUs with the enhanced network and security of NVIDIA smart network interface cards (SmartNICs) and data processing units (DPUs). Deliver maximum performance and enhanced security for I/O intensive GPU accelerated workloads, from the data center to the edge.

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NVIDIA AX800 delivers high-performance, 5G vRAN and AI services on a common cloud infrastructure.

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A More Powerful, Secure Enterprise

High-Performance 5G

NVIDIA Aerial™ is an application framework for building high-performance, software-defined, cloud-native 5G networks to address increasing user demand. It enables GPU-accelerated signal and data processing for 5G virtual radio access networks (vRANs). NVIDIA converged accelerators provide the highest-performing platform for running 5G workloads. Because data doesn’t need to go through the host PCIe system, processing latency is greatly reduced. The resulting higher throughput also allows for a greater subscriber density per server.

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AI-Based Cybersecurity

AI-Based Cybersecurity

Converged accelerators open up a new range of possibilities for AI-based cybersecurity and networking. The DPU’s Arm cores can be programmed using the NVIDIA Morpheus application framework to perform GPU-accelerated advanced network functions, such as threat detection, data leak prevention, and anomalous behavior profiling. GPU processing can be applied directly to network traffic at a high data rate, and data travels on a direct path between the GPU and DPU, providing better isolation.

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Accelerating AI-on-5G at the Edge

NVIDIA AI-on-5G is made up of the NVIDIA EGX™ platform, the NVIDIA Aerial SDK for software-defined 5G virtual RANs (vRANs), and enterprise AI frameworks, including SDKs such as NVIDIA Isaac™ and NVIDIA Metropolis™. This platform enables edge devices such as video cameras and industrial sensors and robots to use AI and communicate with the data center over 5G. Converged cards make it possible to provide all this functionality in a single enterprise server, without having to deploy more costly purpose-built systems. The same converged card used to accelerate 5G signal processing can also be used for edge AI, with NVIDIA’s Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology making it possible to share the GPU among several different applications.

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Balanced, Optimized Design

Balanced, Optimized Design

Integrating a GPU, DPU, and PCIe switch into a single device, NVIDIA converged accelerators offer a balanced architecture by design. In systems where multiple GPUs and DPUs are desired, a converged accelerator card avoids contention on the server’s PCIe system, so the performance scales linearly with additional devices. In addition, a converged card provides much more predictable performance. Having these components on one physical card also improves space and energy efficiency. Converged cards significantly simplify deployment and ongoing maintenance, particularly when installing in volume servers at scale.

Meet NVIDIA Converged Accelerators

These devices enable data-intensive edge and data center workloads to run with maximum security and performance. 

AX800 Converged Accelerator product image with an Ampere architectured GPU and BlueField-3 DPU

NVIDIA A30X

The NVIDIA A30X combines the NVIDIA A30 Tensor Core GPU with the BlueField-2 DPU. With MIG, the GPU can be partitioned into as many as four GPU instances, each running a separate service. The design of this card provides a good balance of compute and I/O performance for use cases such as 5G vRAN and AI-based cybersecurity. Multiple services can run on the GPU, with the low latency and predictable performance provided by the onboard PCIe switch.

NVIDIA A100X

The NVIDIA A100X brings together the power of the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU with the BlueField-2 DPU. With MIG, each A100 can be partitioned into as many as seven GPU instances, allowing even more services to run simultaneously.

The A100X is ideal for use cases where the compute demands are more intensive. Examples include 5G with massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) capabilities, AI-on-5G deployments, and specialized workloads such as signal processing and multi-node training.

NVIDIA AX800

The NVIDIA AX800 combines NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU technology with the BlueField-3 DPU. It has nearly 1TB/s of GPU memory bandwidth and can be partitioned into as many as seven GPU instances. Its 16 Armv8.2+ A78 Hercules cores support 256 threads, making the AX800 capable of high performance on the most demanding I/O-intensive workloads such as 5G vRAN.

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