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What is the full form of Doca in computer?

Data Center Infrastructure-on-a-Chip (DOCA) from NVIDIA Chip Architecture is a software suite that offers Bluefield DPUs for data center workload acceleration, offloading, and isolation.

What is NVIDIA DOCA?

A runtime environment and an SDK make up NVIDIA DOCA software. Industry-standard open drivers including the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) for storage and the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and P4 for networking and security are included in the DOCA SDK. The NVIDIA DOCA libraries make application acceleration and offloading easier.

NVIDIA DOCA Use the DOCA software development kit to quickly create apps and services for the BlueField networking platform, therefore unlocking data center innovation.

NVIDIA DOCA software framework

Develop applications for ConnectX and NVIDIA BlueField networking devices more quickly. The NVIDIA BlueField networking platform’s potential is unlocked with NVIDIA DOCA. DOCA makes it possible to quickly develop applications and services that offload, accelerate, and isolate data center workloads by using the capabilities of BlueField DPUs and SuperNICs.

To meet the speed and security requirements of contemporary data centers, it enables developers to design software-defined, cloud-native, DPU- and SuperNIC-accelerated services with zero-trust protection. All of the host drivers and tools required for your NVIDIA BlueField and ConnectX devices are included in DOCA-Host.

The BlueField networking platform and DOCA work together to make it possible to create apps that provide revolutionary networking, security, and storage capabilities. BlueField gives developers all the tools they need to create ideal, safe, accelerated data centers and AI clouds by separating the infrastructure service realm from the workload domain. This results in significant gains in application and server speed, security, and efficiency.

Provisioning, deploying, and coordinating containerized services across hundreds or thousands of DPUs and SuperNICs in the data center is made possible by the DOCA runtime, which comes pre-installed on the BlueField networking platform. Industry-standard open APIs and software frameworks are offered by the DOCA SDK. In addition to drivers, libraries, tools, documentation, and sample applications, the SDK supports a variety of operating systems and distributions.

DOCA-Host has many installation profiles for data center operations. The interfaces required for NVIDIA networking systems, such as BlueField and ConnectX devices, are supplied by DOCA-Host.

Host and Platform Deployments

The BlueField Networking Platform’s DOCA

The NVIDIA DOCA software framework powers the NVIDIA BlueField networking platform, an advanced computing platform for data center infrastructure that offers massively scaled software-defined networking, storage, security, and management services at accelerated speeds.

The Host’s DOCA

NVIDIA BlueField and NVIDIA Connect-X provide 800 Gb/s Ethernet and InfiniBand connections with DOCA. The DOCA-host package, which is based on an open foundation, comes the necessary drivers and tools to improve networking speed and make expanded functionality possible. For Arm and x86 architectures, DOCA software is offered as a stand-alone package (without an OS bundle) for all major operating systems.

Take the stack apart

Bundle of BlueField Software

The bootloader, operating system kernel, required network interface card (NIC) firmware, NVIDIA drivers, sample filesystem, and toolchain are all included in the BlueField software package and are all validated as NVIDIA NGC catalog items.

Ubuntu 22.04, a commercial-grade Linux distribution with ongoing OS and security upgrades, is part of the BlueField package.

Key Elements of the SDK

Remote direct-memory access, or DOCA RDMA, acceleration SDK features include GPU Direct Network Acceleration, RDMA verbs, and Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) and Unified Communication X (UCX).

SDK: Firefly time synchronization, P4, 5T for 5G technology, simulated VirtIO, and NVIDIA Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing (ASAP2) software-defined networking (SDN).

Acceleration of security SDK: App Shield runtime security and inline cryptography

Acceleration of storage SDK: compression, encryption, and storage emulation and virtualization.

Acceleration of data paths (DPA) SDK: expedite tasks that need high-performance NIC engine access.

Administration SDK: service orchestration, provisioning, and deployment Industry-standard APIs include Linux, P4, SPDK, and DPDK, Netlink

The kernel and user space

Compatibility both forward and backward

In order to guarantee that applications created today will reliably function with additional performance advantages on all future BlueField generations, DOCA offers multi-generational support.

Reduce, Speed, and Separate Infrastructure

BlueField securely delivers data to workloads at wire speed while offloading, accelerating, and isolating network, storage, and security services.

Open Ecosystem

To speed up ecosystem development, Open Ecosystem NVIDIA DOCA provides a software application framework.

In conclusion

NVIDIA DOCA gives developers the resources they need to simplify networking, storage, and security operations at the hardware level, freeing up CPU resources. This makes it the perfect option for businesses wishing to update and future-proof their infrastructure as it facilitates quicker data processing, improved security, and efficient resource use in data center operations.