Enterprise, Cloud, Edge and Data Centers
Routers, switches, and firewalls
Transportation networks, telecom networks, Financial trading platforms and industrial control systems
Particle accelerators, Satellites and more
A few examples
The difference is DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Where every other partner uses dedicated silicon to meet the latency requirements of real-time sensor streaming, NXP runs a general-purpose applications processor on Linux. DPDK's user-space packet path is what makes that viable.
TL;DR / Key Results Throughput shaped in cache: CHIME’s GPU correlator path ingests UDP from FPGAs and, via DPDK poll-mode + DDIO, parses in L3 and writes non-temporal to exact DRAM offsets, pre-arranged for GPU math. Memory ops halved: The design targets ~2 host-memory operations per byte delivered to GPUs (DRAM write, then GPU read),…
Tobias Roeder, Application Engineer at ipoque - a Rohde & Schwarz company, has spent years working at the intersection of deep packet inspection (DPI), open source packet processing, and telecom infrastructure. In a recent interview and follow-up to his DPDK Summit presentation, Tobias offered a candid view into how ipoque’s DPI engine integrates with DPDK…
Kubernetes revolutionized application orchestration, but infrastructure management? Still a mess of REST APIs and shell scripts that barely integrate with the ecosystem. Guvenc Gulce and IronCore Team saw datacenter operators wrestling with networking solutions that treated Kubernetes as an afterthought, bolted on rather than built in. The vision was clean: pure IPv6 underlay networks, software-defined…
Introduction: How does a developer go from a fascination with programming to creating a leading open source project that reshapes network performance testing? Jianzhang Peng’s story begins as a developer working on L4 load balancers, using DPDK to tackle the complex challenges of modern networking. He created DPERF, a high-performance load testing tool, to address…
Introduction: Grout is an emerging open source project hosted under the DPDK community that aims to simplify high-performance networking and provide a reference application for building applications using DPDK. Spearheaded by Robin Jarry from Red Hat, the project was born out of the need for a vendor-neutral, practical tool to validate server setups optimized for…
Introduction The demand for high-performance network security solutions is at an all-time high, as organizations constantly seek faster and more efficient ways to handle traffic, detect threats, and ensure real-time response capabilities. Suricata as an open-source high-performance network security engine has long been at the forefront of these efforts. Network security professionals appreciate Suricata for…
In the fast-paced world of high-performance networking, DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) stands as a powerful tool, and its success is due in no small part to the dedication of its community members. One such contributor is Kamalakshitha, a talented developer whose journey took her from studying electronics and communications in India to making a…
Introduction In the modern cloud computing era, network performance and efficiency are paramount. Microsoft Azure has been at the forefront of this revolution, introducing innovative solutions like the Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) and integrating the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) to enhance the network capabilities of Azure virtual machines. In this user story we…
In the rapidly evolving landscape of silicon and networking technologies, providing robust and standardized support for hardware has become a paramount aspect of success. Marvell, a leading provider of silicon solutions, embarked on a transformative journey to ensure seamless support for their Octeon system-on-chip (SoC) through the adoption of DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). This…
