TCP onloading for data center servers
Greg Regnier, Srihari Makineni, I. Illikkal, Ravishankar Iyer, Dave Minturn, Ram Huggahalli, Don Newell, Linda Cline, Annie P. Foong · Computer · 2004
To meet the increasing networking needs of server workloads, servers are starting to offload packet processing to peripheral devices to achieve TCP/IP acceleration. Researchers at Intel Labs have experimented with alternative solutions that improve the server's ability to process TCP/IP packets efficiently and at very high rates.