NVIDIA EGX Converged Accelerators

With NVIDIA EGX converged accelerators, enterprises can benefit from the GPU and SmartNIC or DPU to build scalable, end-to-end infrastructures for modern applications. Traditionally, modern workloads and data center designs impose significant networking overhead on CPU cores. But with NVIDIA’s SmartNIC and DPU technology, EGX converged accelerators can handle virtualization faster, more efficiently, and affordably. Additionally, the SmartNIC, which is also a core component of the NVIDIA DPU, provides enhanced security to detect and block malicious activity. The SmartNIC can also inspect network traffic, block attacks, and encrypt transmissions, eliminating the need to route all incoming and outgoing data back to the CPU and across the PCIe bus.

The powerful combination of NVIDIA’s eighth-generation GPU architecture and SmartNIC or DPU creates a more secure AI processing engine, where data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) sensors can be sent across the network fully encrypted, ensuring data in transit is protected. The NVIDIA BlueField DPU includes security offloads to encrypt or decrypt at line rates of up to 200 gigabits per second (Gb/s), and GPUDirect™ transfers video frames directly into GPU memory for AI processing.