Specialists in moving data in data centers, DPUs, or data processing units, are a new class of programmable processor and will join CPUs and GPUs as one of the three pillars of computing.
]]>A SmartNIC is a programmable accelerator that makes data center networking, security and storage efficient and flexible.
]]>This post was originally published on the Mellanox blog. In the first post of this series, I argued that it is a function and not a form that distinguishes a SmartNIC from a data processing unit (DPU). I introduced the category of datacenter NICs called SmartNICs, which include both hardware transport and a programmable data path for virtual switch acceleration.
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