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Sep 2026
Towards Simple Models of Complex SmartNICs
Cloud vendors push ambitious in-network processing (e.g., crypto, telemetry) onto the NIC to offload servers even as link rates climb to terabit speeds. Vendors have responded with heterogeneous SmartNICs. For example, NVIDIA BlueField-3 interposes---between the wire and the host CPUs---a line-rate eSwitch, a multithre...
Robert Chang, Teng Jiang, Wonsup Yoon et al.
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