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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit).

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit).

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. As an aside, I do find it fascinating that new storage startups often emerge with support for Linux first, then add other operating systems afterward.). Yes, please! (I

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