Server network scalability and TCP offload

USENIX 2005 Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 209-222

  Freimuth, Doug ^a   Hu, Elbert ^a   LaVoie, Jason ^a   Mraz, Ronald ^a   Nahum, Erich ^a   Pradhan, Prashant ^a   Tracey, John ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SYSTEM BUSES;

ADAPTER SOFTWARES; BUS BANDWIDTH; CACHE MISS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; NETWORK SCALABILITY; NEW HOSTS; SIMPLE NETWORKS; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 67650490994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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