Efficient direct user level sockets for an Intel® Xeon™ processor based TCP on-load engine

Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Saletore, Vikram A ^a   Stillwell Jr , Paul M ^a   Wiegert, John A ^a   Cayton, Phil ^a   Gray, Jeff ^a   Regnier, Greg J ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED TRANSPORT ACCELERATION (ETA); MULTI-PROCESSOR SERVERS; PACKET PROCESSING ENGINE (PPE); SOCKET COMMANDS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEMANTICS; SERVERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; USER INTERFACES;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 33746281762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2005.191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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