NVIDIA STX

The foundation for AI-native data platforms.

Overview

The Next Generation of Accelerated Data Infrastructure

NVIDIA STX is a modular reference architecture for an AI-native data platform specifically engineered to solve architectural challenges. It serves as the critical layer that bridges the gap between massive AI compute and data storage by centralizing intelligent data handling. By leveraging the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, BlueField®-4, and Spectrum-X™ networking, STX provides the foundation for partners building a universal data engine that accelerates the full AI lifecycle, from training and analytics to real-time agentic inference.

NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX Brings Agentic AI Storage Processing With In-Silicon Security

Embed agent, memory, and storage protection in silicon with NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX, enforcing real-time, policy-driven security at AI agent speed.

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NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Platform Launches With Broad Industry Adoption

NVIDIA STX reference architecture, co-designed with leading storage partners, enables enterprises, cloud and AI providers to easily deploy accelerated storage infrastructure capable of the long-context reasoning required for agentic AI.

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Architecture

What Is NVIDIA STX?

NVIDIA STX is a new modular reference architecture for an AI-native storage and data platform, co-designed with leading partners. Built on NVIDIA accelerated compute, networking, and AI software, NVIDIA STX provides optimized storage and context memory for enterprises and large-scale AI leaders.

NVIDIA STX is co-designed with partners to build and deploy AI storage at scale and accelerate every storage AI workload. STX includes new system designs built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and AI software.

Features

Advancing AI-Native Data Infrastructure for AI Factories

NVIDIA STX serves as the blueprint for high-speed data access and seamless acceleration across the AI factory.

Next-Gen, AI-Enabled Data Infrastructure

This reference architecture unifies NVIDIA Vera, Rubin, and BlueField-4 to upgrade traditional storage. It provides a blueprint for storage leaders to build foundational data engines, overcoming legacy limitations to power the future of enterprise intelligence.

Acceleration at Every
Data Layer

This reference architecture bridges hardware and software to boost data throughout the AI lifecycle by bringing compute to the data. NVIDIA STX provides new system designs to accelerate high performance storage, enterprise AI data, and context memory.

Optimized Data Infrastructure for AI Factories

STX redefines performance by offloading key-value (KV) cache and vector tasks to BlueField-4, accelerating context storage and indexing. Optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic AI workflows, STX increases tokens per second and efficiency to sustain massive GPU cluster throughput.

Technologies

A Comprehensive Accelerated Data Platform

Powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing hardware and software, STX introduces a purpose-built design for agentic AI-driven storage workloads.

NVIDIA Vera CPU

The NVIDIA Vera CPU is purpose-built for agentic reasoning, coordinating data movement, memory, and workflows across accelerated systems.

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NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform

The NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform is built for the age of agentic AI and reasoning, engineered to master multi-step problem-solving and massive long-context workflows at scale.

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NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX Storage Processor

The NVIDIA BlueField®-4 STX processor powers AI storage platforms with accelerated AI-native data movement and in-silicon security, boosting throughput, efficiency, and scalability for next-generation AI infrastructure.

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NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Networking

The world’s first Ethernet networking platform, NVIDIA Spectrum-X is designed for training and deploying gigascale AI.

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NVIDIA CMX Context Memory Storage

The NVIDIA CMX™ AI-native storage infrastructure uses BlueField to eliminate inference GPU stalls, deliver power efficiency, and enable high-speed KV-sharing to build inference infrastructure scale.

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NVIDIA AI Data Platform

The NVIDIA AI Data Platform is a customizable reference design that integrates accelerated computing into enterprise storage.

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Adopters

Meet Our Partners

STX is co-designed with leading storage partners to deliver a data platform solution with acceleration at every layer.

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Redefining Storage Infrastructure for AI

Discover how NVIDIA STX accelerates every data layer, eliminating the primary bottlenecks associated with agentic AI, to create a robust storage foundation for AI-native data platforms.

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