sNICh: Efficient last hop networking in the data center

ANCS 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ram, Kaushik Kumar ^a   Mudigonda, Jayaram ^b   Cox, Alan L ^a   Rixner, Scott ^a   Ranganathan, Parthasarathy ^b   Santos, Jose Renato ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FLOW; BUS BANDWIDTH; DATA CENTERS; HARDWARE-BASED APPROACH; MAIN MEMORY; NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS; PACKET FILTERING; PHYSICAL NETWORK; SOFTWARE SOLUTION; SOFTWARE-BASED; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS; EXPERIMENTATION; PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SCALABILITY; SERVERS; SWITCHING; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 78650459373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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