Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers

As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators

Dell has decided that users of its older servers deserve the chance to run data processing units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs) – cards that combine networking hardware with enough compute and storage to run chores like encryption and free up CPU cores for more productive uses.…

from The Register