## Ignite HPC with BlueField Networking
Unleash application performance and system efficiency for modern scientific computing.
[Read Blog](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/ushering-in-a-new-era-of-hpc-and-supercomputing-performance-with-dpus/)
# Transform High-Performance Computing Data Centers with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs
Providing powerful computing, high-speed NVIDIA Quantum [InfiniBand](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/infiniband/) networking, and highly programmable engines, the NVIDIA BlueField® networking platform ignites unprecedented innovation and performance for modern scientific computing applications.
## Message Passing Interface \(MPI\) Performance Acceleration
HPC and AI communication frameworks and libraries are latency and bandwidth sensitive, and play a critical role in determining application performance.
[NVIDIA DOCA](https://developer.nvidia.com/networking/doca)™ provides many services, including MPI and Shared Memory Library \(SHMEM\), that accelerate multi-process communication. DOCA enables the BlueField DPU to progress the application’s communication periods in parallel with the computation periods, resulting in increased application performance.
## Computational Storage and Advanced Offloads
The next-generation open storage architecture offers a new paradigm for accelerating, isolating, and securing high-performance storage systems. The system employs hardware and software co-design, making the DPUs incredibly efficient and transparent to the user.
The NVIDIA BlueField networking platform and DOCA enable computational storage and advanced storage offloads for next-generation data centers. DOCA provides storage services on the DPU, including checksum offloads, decompression, NVMe emulation with BlueField SNAP™, and VIRTIO-FS providing file system offloads.
## Adaptive Performance Isolation
[Modern data centers](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/) and multi-application environments need to operate at absolute peak efficiency. The BlueField networking platform enables adaptive performance isolations, ensuring bare-metal performance for applications by leveraging network telemetry information and application performance characteristics. This enables applications to run simultaneously and achieve performance similar to a single application run.
## Supported DPU Technology Environments
### Build and Deploy NVIDIA Cloud-Native Supercomputing
Learn how to deliver a secure multi-tenant environment, while providing performance isolation on shared computing resources—all at bare-metal speeds. From video tutorials to step-by-step deployment guides, NVIDIA provides all the materials you need to start your journey with NVIDIA Cloud-Native Supercomputing.
[**Download Your Starter Kit**](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/lp/networking/cloud-native-supercomputing-technology/)
### Provides a Zero-Trust Architecture
The BlueField networking platform ensures supercomputing resources are securely provisioned, without prior residuals for new tenants. BlueField provides a clean boot image for a newly scheduled tenant, performs a complete resource cleanup, re-establishes trust for allocated infrastructure resources,
[**Learn About Cloud-Native Supercomputing**](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/cloud-native-supercomputing/)
### High-Performance, Efficient Networking
BlueField is a powerful data center services accelerator, delivering up to 400 gigabits per second \(Gb/s\) connectivity for both traditional applications and modern GPU-accelerated workloads, while freeing host CPU cores to run applications instead of infrastructure tasks.
[**Learn About BlueField Networking**](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/data-processing-unit/)
### Software-Defined Infrastructure
The NVIDIA DOCA software development kit enables developers to easily create high-performance, software-defined, cloud-native, DPU-accelerated services that leverage industry-standard APIs.
[**Learn About DOCA SDK**](https://developer.nvidia.com/networking/doca)