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

The move from hardware middleboxes to software network functions, as advocated by NFV,
has proven more challenging than expected. Develo** new NFs remains a tedious …

The increasing demand for cloud-based inference services requires the use of Graphics
Processing Unit (GPU). It is highly desirable to utilize GPU efficiently by multiplexing different …

As a recent innovation, network functions virtualization (NFV)—with its core concept of
replacing hardware middleboxes with software network functions (NFs) implemented in …

In this paper we present Metron, a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform that
achieves high resource utilization by jointly exploiting the underlying network and …

As the main gateway for network traffic to a server, the network interface card (NIC) is an
ideal place to incorporate diverse network functionality, such as traffic control, protocol …

Multiple vendors have recently released SmartNICs that provide both special-purpose
accelerators and programmable processing cores that allow increasingly sophisticated …

Develo** server applications that offload computation and data to a NIC accelerator is
laborious because one has to explore the design space of decisions about data placement …

This paper explores new opportunities afforded by the growing deployment of compute and
I/O accelerators to improve the performance and efficiency of hardware-accelerated …

In general, techniques are described for enhancing opera tions of virtual networks. In some
examples, a network system includes a plurality of servers interconnected by a switch fabric …