Offloading and Accelerating Services

AMD Pensando™ DPU technology has been adopted by some of the industry’s largest cloud service providers across product generations. The AMD Pensando DPUs have been widely adopted, validated and tested as the front-end networking solution in some of the largest hyperscale data centers.

Use Cases

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Comprehensive Observability

Tap into granular visibility into network, storage, and security operations for fast troubleshooting, compliance, and performance optimization.

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Storage Acceleration

Offload storage virtualization, encryption, and data services to maximize throughput, help reduce latency, and boost efficiency in modern data centers.

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Front-end Networking for AI Clusters

Leverage front-end networking to accelerate and manage data movement between compute, storage, and external networks, enabling high throughput and low latency for demanding AI workloads.

Continuing to Raise the Bar with Robust Performance 

AMD Pensando DPU

The AMD Pensando™ Salina 400 DPU is fully P4 programmable and optimized for minimal latency, jitter, and power requirements. The third generation DPU from AMD Pensando, delivers incredible power efficiency while enabling significant throughput for P4 pipelines, the DPU also preserves software compatibility with previous AMD Pensando™ DPUs, making it easy for customers to adopt.

Features

  • Enhanced Observability
  • Cloud Networking
  • Advanced Security Features
  • Storage Acceleration
  • Encryption

Benefits

  • 2x performance and scale vs our previous generation DPUs1
  • Optimize cloud and AI front-end infrastructure performance
  • Deterministic latency, low jitter
  • Fully programmable P4 data path
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AMD Pensando™ Giglio DPU

The AMD Pensando™ Giglio DPU builds on second-generation architecture with enhanced power and performance efficiency, delivering dual 200 Gbps line-rate offload for data center networking, storage, and security. Fully P4 programmable and supporting DDR5 memory, this device maintains source-code compatibility with earlier generations, enabling easy deployment of advanced traffic processing and virtualization at cloud scale.

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AMD Pensando™ Elba DPU

The second-generation AMD Pensando Elba DPU is fully P4 programmable and optimized for high throughput, enabling advanced offload of networking, storage, and security services at dual 200 Gbps line rate. With dedicated engines for encryption and storage, this solution supports complex traffic processing, network virtualization, and inline encryption, and is source-code compatible with previous AMD Pensando™ DPUs for seamless integration.

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Delivering Meaningful Outcomes for Our Customers

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5X SDN Performance2
Multi-Service
Future Ready

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100X CPS Gains3
Cost Savings

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TCO Savings4
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DXC Technology

TCO Savings of $65M5

Customer Experiences with AMD Pensando™ DPUs

Microsoft Azure: “A Wonderful Partnership”

“AMD Pensando™ helped us with CPS. Customers just love it. Now we’re world leaders in CPS performance.”

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DXC Technology: Driving Down Costs for Customers and Themselves

DXC estimates savings in the tens of millions thanks to AMD Pensando™ DPUs in the HPE Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch.

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Oracle Cloud: 5x Network Performance Gains

OCI works with the “world-class” AMD Pensando™ to rapidly add new features and performance and win more customers.

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HPE Aruba: Rethinking Data Centers

The HPE Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch with integrated AMD Pensando™ technology creates a new way to build network fabrics.

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Unlock the Future of AI Networking

Learn how AMD Pensando™ DPU technology can transform front-end networking for the modern data center.  

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Footnotes
  1. PEN-012:  Measurements conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of Aug 27, 2024, on the current specification for the AMD Pensando™ Salina DPU accelerator designed with AMD Pensando™ 5nm process technology, projected to result in delivering 400Gb/s line-rate estimated performance. Estimated delivered results calculated for AMD Pensando™ Elba DPU designed with AMD Pensando 7nm process technology resulted in 200Gb/s line-rate performance. Actual results based on production silicon may vary. 
  2. Vithal Shirodkar, SVP, Software Development, OCI Networking: “This jointly developed solution has been instrumental to accelerating performance for the most demanding customer workloads. Improvements have been dramatic, with a 5X performance boost for SDN networking.”
  3. Gerald De Grace, Lead, Microsoft Azure Accelerated Connections: “Our collaboration with AMD using the AMD Pensando DPU based smart appliance and full-stack AMD software in production for Accelerated Connections has resulted in 100X improvement in CPS performance over our existing solution and will extend to broader tiers within the Azure network in the future.”
  4. Satinder Sethi, GM, IBM Cloud Infrastructure Services: “By collaborating with AMD and utilizing their programmable DPU, and turnkey SDN and security services software, IBM Cloud has been able to accelerate to market our award-winning secure high-performance “bare-metal servers for VPC” offering for VMware, Red Hat and SAP workloads, driving significant network throughput improvements for customers, and realizing 30% TCO savings from greater workload density and preserved CPU cores.”
  5. Jayant Tulsiani, DXC VP Cloud and Infrastructure Services: “Previously what required hundreds of virtual and physical firewalls to meet our segmentation and compliance requirements, is now being delivered natively inline on the platform, which has been transformation to the TCO model of our business, resulting in projected TCO savings of ~$65M”