RiceNIC: A reconfigurable network interface for experimental research and education

Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Experimental Computer Science

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Shafer, Jeffrey ^a   Rixner, Scott ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethernet; FPGA prototyping; Network interface cards

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE PROTOTYPE; NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS; NETWORK SERVER ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION; ETHERNET; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SERVERS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 37849053617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1281700.1281721     Document Type: Article

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