Why do I get the impression that we're re-inventing the mainframe?
Linux Foundation thinks it can get you interested in smartNICs
The Linux Foundation wants to make data processing units (DPUs) easier to deploy, with the launch of the Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project this week. The program has already garnered support from several leading chipmakers, systems builders, and software vendors – Nvidia, Intel, Marvell, F5, Keysight, Dell Tech, …
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Tuesday 21st June 2022 12:41 GMT A Non e-mouse
With the article yesterday talking about how AMD nearly had a single processor for both x86 & ARM instructions, we've probably even closer than I thought.
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Wednesday 22nd June 2022 06:55 GMT Richard 12
Re: Stops
All I/O devices have had internal computing since the very first serial connected mouse and keyboard.
The only real change here is that the buyer is now intentionally being given the ability to write firmware for the CPU that was already there.
The most obvious use is of course hypervisors, as this allows it to offload all the virtual-NIC processing to the physical NIC. It just needs to upload custom NIC firmware at boot, then tell it what needs to be done to properly filter packets to the VMs it's hosting.
Of course, it also gives guests and external attackers a new and exciting way to compromise the host...