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DPUs accelerate networking, communication, and storage functions and free up the CPU to focus more on running the operating systems and application processing. DPUs help process and move large amounts of data around the data centers by using its own onboard multi-core processors for hardware acceleration, data transfers, compression, or decompression or both, encryption, storage, and security.