aagontuk

Intro Docs

• DPU-Based Hardware Acceleration: A Software Perspective

Setup

• BlueField-2 Quickstart Guide for Clemson R7525s
• NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: Host setup is little outdate. See Host setup bellow.
• NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part III: Ultimate Cloudlab Setup
• NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial: “Rig for Dive” — Part V: Install the Latest Bluefield OS with DPDK and DOCA

aagontuk

• RDMA Aware Networks Programming User Manual
• On the Impact of Cluster Configuration on RoCE Application Design
• RDMA over Commodity Ethernet at Scale
• Design Guidelines for High Performance RDMA Systems
• FaSST: Fast, Scalable and Simple Distributed Transactions with Two-sided (RDMA) Datagram RPCs
• RDMA [1]: A short history of remote DMA networking
• [Slide] RDMA Tutorial
• Understanding the concepts and mechanisms of RDMA
• [InfiniBand RDMA over PCI Express Networ

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD