Accelerated virtual switching with programmable NICs for scalable data center networking

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures, VISA '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 65-72

  Luo, Yan ^a   Murray, Eric ^a   Ficarra, Timothy L ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

data centers; packet buffering; programmable network interface card; virtual switch

Indexed keywords

CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; DATA CENTERS; FLOW MONITORING; INTELLIGENT NETWORK INTERFACE; LINE RATE; NETWORK FABRIC; PACKET BUFFERING; PROGRAMMABILITY; PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS; SCALE-UP; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL NETWORKS; VIRTUAL SWITCH;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

NETWORK LAYERS;

EID: 78649305163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851399.1851411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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