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Candy798

·Sep 28, 2022

Asterfusion Arm-based DPU SmartNIC Solution

DPU is a new class of programmable processor, it provides a computing engine for high bandwidth, low latency, and data-intensive computing scenarios, with CPUs and GPUs as one of the three pillars of computing. DPU can be designed to be a SmartNIC or standalone network appliance. The popularity of the…

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Asterfusion Arm-based DPU SmartNIC Solution

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teetengloong

·Sep 14, 2022

Introducing vSphere 8

There were a bunch of big announcements at this year’s VMware Explore event, which happened at the beginning of this month. We see announcements for vSphere 8, vSAN 8, VMware Aria, and many more. A few people asked me to help summarise some of the more important news from VMware…

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Introducing vSphere 8

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Candy798

·Jul 20, 2022

What is SmartNIC? |Asterfusion Marvell Octeon SOC based SmartNIC

SmartNIC( smart network interface card) is a programmable accelerator which enables data center networking, storage and security more scalable, flexible and particularly efficient. When smartphone appeared 15 years ago, it changed mobile communication completely. Today, smart network interface card ( SmartNIC ) is setting off a similar revolution in the…

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What is SmartNIC? |Asterfusion Marvell Octeon SOC based SmartNIC

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cs.lev

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CodeX

·May 7, 2021

NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part VII/B: To Offload or Not To Offload? Continued

We continue our quest on the offloading topic (Part VII/A) and investigate the packet processing performance with pktgen. Architecture For the measurements, I prepare the machines to materialize the architecture depicted below. The setup is more or less the same we had previously. The Host on the left-hand side (let’s call…

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NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part VII/B: Cont’d

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cs.lev

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CodeX

·May 3, 2021

NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part VII/A: To Offload or Not To Offload?

Is it beneficial to offload OvS datapath to the hardware? Does it matter if the kernel or DPDK datapath is offloaded? In this episode, I dig a bit deeper into the OvS offloading matters, and I also explain how the packet processing is done with OvS running on the SmartNIC. …

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NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part VII/A

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CodeX

·Apr 19, 2021

NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part IV: Baseline Throughput Tests with iperf3

In this episode, we scrutinize the performance of the Bluefield-2 SmartNIC in our two-node cluster deployed at Cloudlab. We had quite a bumpy road in reaching this point, but we finally did it. …

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NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part IV

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CodeX

·Apr 14, 2021

NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part II: Change mode of operation and Install DPDK.

After firing up an experiment in Cloudlab and getting our hands dirty with Bluefield-2, we continue our journey by elaborating on the different modes of operation and install DPDK on the Bluefield-2. In Part I., we have installed all necessary drivers on r7525 machines at the Clemson facility of Cloudlabs…

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NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield 2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part II

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CodeX

·Apr 12, 2021

NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part I: Install Drivers and Access the SmartNIC

I have gotten my hands dirty with NVIDIA Bluefield-2 SmartNIC deployed at Cloudlab’s facility @ Clemson. If you ever wondered to buy a Bluefield SmartNIC, now I can show you how to test them and get your first impressions for free. What is Mellanox Bluefield-2 For some time ago, the networking industry is going…

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NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part I

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Jason Gintert

·Feb 4, 2021

SDN’s Promise Lives On — Bits In Flight — A Connectivity Blog

I’m not sure if anyone else remembers the early days of OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking (SDN), but it was going to change networking for good. The idea was being able to embed programmable forwarding and filtering policy directly into your switches. You would then use a controller which spoke…

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SDN’s Promise Lives On — Bits In Flight — A Connectivity Blog

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Marvell Author

·Jan 14, 2021

What’s Next in System Integration and Packaging? New Approaches to Networking and Cloud Data Center Chip Design

By Wolfgang Sauter, Customer Solutions Architect — Packaging, Marvell The continued evolution of 5G wireless infrastructure and high-performance networking is driving the semiconductor industry to unprecedented technological innovations, signaling the end of traditional scaling on Single-Chip Module (SCM) packaging. With the move to 5nm process technology and beyond, 50T Switches…

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What’s Next in System Integration and Packaging?

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