Blog posts tagged
"dpu"

12 posts

Benjamin Ryzman
11 June 2025

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

Article Kubernetes

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...

Benjamin Ryzman
11 June 2025

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

Article Networking

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...

Benjamin Ryzman
22 April 2024

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 

Article Networking

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...

Shashank Balashankar
19 March 2024

Serdar Vural
6 October 2023

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

Article Cloud and server

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...

Serdar Vural
6 October 2023

Shashank Balashankar
13 June 2023

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

Article Networking

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...

Shashank Balashankar
13 June 2023

Felicia Jia
6 June 2023

Meet Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2023

Article Networking

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...

Felicia Jia
6 June 2023

Felicia Jia
31 August 2022

Join Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2022

Article Cloud and server

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
31 August 2022

Felicia Jia
14 April 2022

Join Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2022

Article Cloud and server

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...

Felicia Jia
14 April 2022

Fouaz Bouguerra
17 December 2021

Data centre networking: SmartNICs

Article Internet of Things

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

Fouaz Bouguerra
17 December 2021

anastasiavalti
13 April 2021

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

Article AI

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,...

anastasiavalti
13 April 2021

Canonical
5 October 2020

Canonical expands collaboration with NVIDIA to bring AI to the edge

Article Ubuntu

Canonical has been working closely with NVIDIA for many years to fuel innovation and support open source software with the power of accelerated processing. That already allowed us to jointly deliver GPU acceleration into Linux, OpenStack and container workloads on traditional datacenter servers. We continued working...

Canonical
5 October 2020

Canonical
5 October 2020

NVIDIA’s Ariel Kit Explains How NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Are Redefining Data Center Services

Article Ubuntu

NVIDIA is redefining the data center around the concept of data processing units (DPUs): powerful network cards running Ubuntu out of the box that combine hardware and software to deliver new classes of cloud architectures – in the data center and at the edge.  Whether for private clouds, edge computing or data center...

Canonical
5 October 2020