Offloading distributed applications onto smartNICs using iPipe

著者: Ming Liu, Tianyi Cui, Henry Schuh, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Simon Peter, Karan Gupta - Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication 2019 被引用: 177

Emerging Multicore SoC SmartNICs, enclosing rich computing resources (e.g., a multicore processor, onboard DRAM, accelerators, programmable DMA engines), hold the potential to offload generic datacenter server tasks. However, it is unclear how to use a SmartNIC efficiently and maximize the offloading benefits, especially for distributed applications. Towards this end, we characterize four commodity SmartNICs and summarize the offloading performance implications from four perspectives: traffic control, computing capability, onboard memory, and host communication.