NVIDIA DOCA™ is a comprehensive software framework designed to accelerate application development for NVIDIA BlueField® and ConnectX® networking devices. By harnessing the power of BlueField DPUs and SuperNICs, DOCA enables the rapid creation of applications and services that offload, accelerate, and isolate data center workloads. It provides developers with the tools needed to create software-defined, cloud-native, DPU- and SuperNIC-accelerated services with zero-trust protection, addressing the performance and security demands of modern data centers.

Features

• Full-Stack Solution: DOCA includes an SDK and a runtime environment, providing tools for provisioning, deploying, and orchestrating containerized services on hundreds or thousands of DPUs and SuperNICs.
• High Performance: Accelerates data movement, access, and management for multi-GPU, multi-node systems, maximizing storage, network, and multi-node, multi-GPU communications.
• Comprehensive SDK: The SDK supports a range of operating systems and distributions and includes drivers, libraries, tools, documentation, and example applications.
• DOCA-Host Package: Provides the needed interfaces for NVIDIA networking platforms, including both BlueField and ConnectX devices, with several installation profiles to fit data center workflows.
• Industry-Standard APIs: Supports industry-standard open APIs and software frameworks, ensuring compatibility and ease of integration.

Benefits

• Enhanced Performance: Delivers breakthrough networking, security, and storage performance, improving application and server efficiency.
• Scalability: Supports large-scale deployments with multi-GPU, multi-node systems, ensuring flexibility and efficiency.
• Security: Offers zero-trust protection, isolating infrastructure service domains from workload domains to enhance security.
• Developer Productivity: Provides developers with all the tools needed to realize optimal, secure, accelerated data centers and AI clouds.
• Future-Proof: Ensures that applications developed today will consistently run with added performance benefits on future generations of BlueField.