Archive of posts tagged: Data center
In-Network Computing
Introduction In-network computing is a new research area that has emerged over the last few years. In-network computing, also known as In-network computation or NetCompute, refers to the execution of programs typically running on end-hosts within network devices....
Server Architecture for the New Age Datacenter
Server architectures have largely been boring. Boring has been good. It has helped applications thrive in a stable H/W ecosystem and innovate at providing business logic. While performance improvements have largely been single thread performance improvements extended to data center class systems, we are beginning to see a new era in Server architecture designs driven by memory technologies, accelerators and fabrics like Gen-Z, CCIX and Open CAPI that glue them.
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X86, Memory centric architectures, Gen-Z, CCIX, Open CAPI
The new life of SmartNICs
Programmable network controllers, SmartNICs, are an old concept, yet today they are seeing renewed interest and growing adoption in data centers and HPC systems. This blog post discusses the trends in modern computer networks that drive the dramatic increase of...Subscribe
