The gap between CPU and networking speeds has motivated the development of
SmartNICs for near-network processing. Recent work has shown that many network …

The gap between CPU and networking speeds has motivated the development of
SmartNICs for NF (network functions) offloading. However, offloading performance is …

SmartNICs are touted as an attractive substrate for network application offloading, offering
benefits in programmability, host resource saving, and energy efficiency. The current usage …

SmartNICs have become an indispensable communication fabric and computing substrate
in today's data centers and enterprise clusters, providing in-network computing capabilities …

Emerging Multicore SoC SmartNICs, enclosing rich computing resources (eg, a multicore
processor, onboard DRAM, accelerators, programmable DMA engines), hold the potential to …

Abstract Programmable Data Planes is a novel paradigm that enables efficient offloading of
network applications. An important enabler for this paradigm is the current available …

High-performance computing (HPC) researchers have long envisioned scenarios where
application workflows could be improved through the use of programmable processing …

Load balancers are pervasively used inside today's clouds to distribute network requests
across data center servers at scale. While load balancers were initially built using dedicated …

Load balancers are pervasively used inside today's clouds to scalably distribute network
requests across data center servers. Given the extensive use of load balancers and their …

Multi-tenancy is essential for unleashing SmartNIC's potential in datacenters. Our systematic
analysis in this work shows that existing on-path SmartNICs have resource multiplexing …