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DOCA Overview

This page provides an overview of the structure of NVIDIA DOCA documentation.

Release Notes

This page contains information on new features, bug fixes, and known issues.

User Types

This page provides a quick introduction to the NVIDIA® BlueField® family of networking platforms (i.e., DPUs and SuperNICs), its DOCA software components, and BlueField user types.

NVIDIA DOCA EULA

This page provides the NVIDIA DOCA SDK end-user license agreement.

Developer Quick Start Guide

This page details the basic steps to bring up the NVIDIA DOCA development environment and to build and run the DOCA reference applications provided along with the DOCA software framework package.

Profiles

This page provides an introduction to the various supported DOCA profiles.

NVIDIA MLNX_OFED Transition Guide

This page covers what users must know about the DOCA-Host unified software stack for NVIDIA networking products.

Installation Guide for Linux

This page details the necessary steps to set up NVIDIA DOCA in your Linux environment.

Developer Guide

This page details the recommended steps to set up an NVIDIA DOCA development environment.

DOCA Programming Guides

These pages are intended for developers wishing to utilize DOCA SDK to develop application on top of NVIDIA® BlueField® networking platforms.

Applications

This page provides an overview of the example DOCA applications implemented on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

App Shield Agent

This page provides process introspection system implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

DMA Copy

This page provides an example of a DMA Copy implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

DPA All-to-all

This page explains the all-to-all collective operation example when accelerated using the DPA in NVIDIA® BlueField®-3.

DPA L2 Reflector

This page provides an L2 reflector implementation on top of the NVIDIA® BlueField®-3.

East-west Overlay Encryption

This page describes IPsec based strongSwan solution on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

Ethernet L2 Forwarding

This page provides an Ethernet L2 Forwarding implementation on top of the NVIDIA® BlueField® DPU.

File Compression

This page provides a file compression implementation on top of the NVIDIA® BlueField®.

File Integrity

This page provides a file integrity implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

GPU Packet Processing

This page provides a description of the GPU packet processing application to demonstrate using the DOCA GPUNetIO, DOCA Ethernet, and DOCA Flow libraries to implement a GPU traffic analyzer.

IPsec Security Gateway

This page provides an IPsec security gateway implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

PCC

This page provides a DOCA PCC implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

PSP Gateway

This page describes the usage of the NVIDIA DOCA PSP Gateway sample application on top of an NVIDIA® BlueField® networking platform or NVIDIA® ConnectX® SmartNIC.

Secure Channel

This page provides a secure channel implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

Simple Forward VNF

This page provides a Simple Forward implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

Switch

This page provides an example of switch implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField® .

UROM RDMO

This page provides a DOCA Remote Direct Memory Operation implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField® using Unified Communication X (UCX) . .

YARA Inspection

This page provides YARA inspection implementation on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

Tools

This page provides an overview of the set of tools provided by DOCA and their purpose.

DOCA Bench

This page describes a tool which allows users to evaluate the performance of DOCA applications, with reasonable accuracy for real-world applications.

Capabilities Print Tool

This page provides instruction on the usage of the DOCA Capabilities Print Tool.

Comm Channel Admin Tool

This page provides instructions on the usage of the DOCA Comm Channel Admin Tool.

DPA Tools

This page lists a set of executables that enable the DPA application developer and the system administrator to manage and monitor DPA resources and to debug DPA applications.

PCC Counter Tool

This page provides instruction on the usage of the PCC Counter tool.

Socket Relay

This page describes DOCA Socket Relay architecture, usage, etc.

DOCA Services

This page provides an overview of the set of services provided by DOCA and their purpose.

Container Deployment

This page provides an overview and deployment configuration of DOCA containers for NVIDIA® BlueField®.

DOCA BlueMan Service

This page provides instructions on how to use the DOCA BlueMan service on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

DOCA Firefly Service

This page provides instructions on how to use the DOCA Firefly service container on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

DOCA Flow Inspector Service

This page provides instructions on how to use the DOCA Flow Inspector service container on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

DOCA HBN Service

This page provides instructions on how to use the DOCA HBN Service container on top of NVIDIA® BlueField®.

DOCA Management Service

This page provides instructions on how to use the DOCA Management Service on top of NVIDIA® BlueField® Networking Platform or ConnectX® Network Adapters.

OpenvSwitch Acceleration (OVS in DOCA)

These pages describe OVS within DOCA, particularly OVS-DOCA, a virtual switch service tailored for NVIDIA NICs and DPUs. It leverages ASAP² technology for accelerated data-path processing, ensuring optimal performance and features through its architecture and integration with DOCA libraries.

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