As network link speeds race to 10 Gigabit/sec and beyond, Internet servers will rely on programmable network interface cards (NICs) to relieve the ever increasing frame processing burdens. To meet that need, this work introduces a scalable, programmable NIC architecture that saturates a full-duplex 10 Gigabit/sec Ethernet link. This proposed architecture ...

Internet services continue to incorporate increasingly bandwidth-intensive applications, including audio and high-quality, feature-length video. As the pace of uniprocessor performance improvements slows, however, network servers can no longer rely on uniprocessor technology to fuel the overall performance improvements necessary for next-generation, ...