2024/05/25 by Timo Schneider, Schneider, Timo, Pengcheng Xu +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Distributed #Embedded Systems Design Techniques #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Parallel #Performance (cs.PF) #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.16378
openalex publication_date 2024/05/25 · openalex created_date 2024/05/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In the era of post-Moore computing, network offload emerges as a solution to two challenges: the imperative for low-latency communication and the push towards hardware specialisation. Various methods have been employed to offload protocol- and data-processing onto network interface cards (NICs), from firmware modification to running full Linux on NICs for application execution. The sPIN project enables users to define handlers executed upon packet arrival. While simulations show sPIN's potential across diverse workloads, a full-system evaluation is lacking. This work presents FPsPIN, a full FPGA-based implementation of sPIN. FPsPIN is showcased through offloaded MPI datatype processing, achieving a 96% overlap ratio. FPsPIN provides an adaptable open-source research platform for researchers to conduct end-to-end experiments on smart NICs.