Investigating Scientific Workload Acceleration using BlueField SmartNICs [Slides]
Brody Williams, USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Stephen Poole, Stephen Poole · 2020
Modern computing platforms whose workloads generate large amounts of network traffic, such as cloud and HPC systems, often suffer from performance bottlenecks associated with the network interface. In order to alleviate the effects of this obstacle, a new generation of accelerators known as ‘SmartNICs’, which are designed to offload low level networking tasks from the processor into the NIC, have emerged.