DDN Appliance Combines AI Storage and NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs for Enhanced Full-Stack Data Center and Cloud Efficiency
DDN News, Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
DDN AI Software and Advanced NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU Integration to Optimize AI Datapath at Rack-Scale for Data Centers, Sovereign AI, and the Cloud
DDN demonstrated its reference architecture, which integrates NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs into DDN EXAScaler and Infinia storage appliances. Benefits extend to the full end-to-end AI data center stack, synergizing with networking platforms such as NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet for accelerating multi-tenant AI clouds.
DDN's reference architecture, integrated with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, utilizes the processing power of client-side DPUs to intelligently offload many critical functions such as S3 API calls, thereby delivering extraordinarily low latency at any scale. The added ability to distribute data operations to client or storage DPUs is critical for effective management and processing of AI data for generative AI clouds and data centers.