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"dpu"

David Beamonte
19 December 2025

A better way to provision NVIDIA BlueField DPUs at scale with MAAS

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The recent release of MAAS 3.7 introduces a significant new capability: the ability to provision NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs) directly through their Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), ...

Benjamin Ryzman
11 June 2025

Canonical Kubernetes meets NVIDIA DOCA Platform Framework (DPF): building the future of DPU-driven infrastructure

Kubernetes Ubuntu tech blog

The combined solutions simplify infrastructure operations and accelerate time-to-value for AI, telecom, and enterprise computing workloads. Accelerate deployment and operations of BlueField DPUs with Canonical Kubernetes At GTC Paris today, Canonical announced support for the NVIDIA DOCA Platform Framework (DPF) with Canonical Kubernetes ...

Benjamin Ryzman
22 April 2024

Achieving Performant Single-Tenant Cloud Isolation with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers, Ubuntu Core, Snaps, and AMD Pensando Elba Data Processing Unit

Networking Ubuntu tech blog

Discover how IBM Cloud’s bare metal servers offer highly confined and high-performing single-tenant cloud isolation through the use of Ubuntu Core and Snaps, supported by the AMD Pensando Elba DPU (Data Processing Unit). This setup enables the creation of secure and efficient environments for each tenant. Its design ensures the total sepa ...

Shashank Balashankar
19 March 2024

Canonical collaborates with NVIDIA to simplify enterprise AI deployments with NVIDIA BlueField-3 operating an optimised, Ubuntu-based Linux OS 

Networking Ubuntu tech blog

The NVIDIA BlueField-3 networking platform – powering the latest data processing units (DPUs) and SuperNICs, and transforming data centre performance and efficiency – runs BlueField OS, an optimised Linux operating system (OS) derived from Ubuntu. With Ubuntu’s signature maintenance and support guarantees, the comprehensive Ubuntu Pro sof ...

Serdar Vural
6 October 2023

What is a smartNIC and how is the technology shaping modern data centres?

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Data centres are going through a transformation. Gradually, we will see a new type of equipment attached to servers in almost every data centre: smartNICs are here. They will be the enablers of converged data centres where common infrastructure tasks are offloaded from a host server to attached network interface cards (NIC).  Think of it ...

Shashank Balashankar
13 June 2023

Canonical solutions reduce SmartNIC time-to-market and drive efficiency in enterprise data centres

Networking Ubuntu tech blog

Data centre efficiency is a central cost factor in enterprise IT environments. So, in the face of rising energy costs and increasingly resource-intensive workloads, it is more important than ever for businesses to seek out greater optimisation. Traditionally, CPUs have been used for the majority of data centre workloads, including network ...

Felicia Jia
6 June 2023

Meet Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2023

Networking Ubuntu tech blog

SmartNICs, the programmable network adapters that make data centre networking, security and storage efficient, scalable and modular, have started to play a significant role in the industry. Combining traditional NIC capabilities with advanced processing power, smartNICs allow many infrastructure capabilities to be offloaded from CPU, thus ...

Felicia Jia
31 August 2022

Join Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2022

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

As a strategic partner of NVIDIA, Canonical is proud to be one of the leading sponsors of the NVIDIA GTC again! Join us virtually at NVIDIA GTC on September 19-22 to explore the latest technology and business trends and learn from experts on how AI and the evolution of the 3D Internet are profoundly impacting ...

Felicia Jia
14 April 2022

Join Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2022

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

SmartNICs, the programmable network adapters that make data center networking, security and storage efficient, scalable and modular, have started to play a significant role in the industry. Canonical believes that SmartNICs are an integral part of cloud infrastructure and we work with partners to integrate our cutting-edge products, such ...

Fouaz Bouguerra
17 December 2021

Data centre networking: SmartNICs

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Providing an overview of SmartNIC and DPU, its architecture and the main benefits they bring to the modern data centre. ...

anastasiavalti
13 April 2021

Security at the Edge: hardware accelerated AI-based cybersecurity with Canonical Ubuntu and the BlueField-2 DPU

AI Ubuntu tech blog

During GTC last fall, NVIDIA announced an increased focus on the enterprise datacenter, including their vision of the datacenter-on-a-chip. The three pillars of this new software-defined datacenter include the data processing unit (DPU) along with the CPU and GPU. The NVIDIA BlueField DPU advances SmartNIC technology, which NVIDIA acquire ...

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