NVIDIA outlines how extreme co-design with its BlueField processors can address the infrastructure challenges posed by Agentic AI workloads. The company argues that as agentic systems trigger complex chains of model calls, tool interactions, and data lookups, traditional infrastructure patterns are insufficient for maintaining performance.
Agentic AI shifts the infrastructure pattern by requiring systems to handle multiple sequential operations per request, including memory lookups, policy checks, and storage accesses. As more agents run concurrently while carrying context across steps, the system must move, protect, retrieve, and reuse data rapidly to sustain throughput.