A case for virtual channel processors

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network-I/O Convergence: Experience, Lessons, Implications, NICELI 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 237-242

  McAuley, Derek ^a   Neugebauer, Rolf ^a  

^a Intel Research Cambridge Lab   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

I O virtualisation; Protocol offloading; Virtual channel processors

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS; PROTOCOL OFFLOADING; SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-THREADING; SPECIAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS; SYMMETRIC MULTI PROCESSING; VIRTUAL CHANNELS; VIRTUAL MACHINE TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUALISATION;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642362738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/944747.944758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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