Security offload using the SmartNIC, A programmable 10 Gbps ethernet NIC

Abstract

The SmartNIC is a User-Programmable 10GE NIC designed around industry standards to meet the demands of high performance networking in HPC and datacenter communities. The SmartNIC enables application-specific offload engines to be developed. Application developers can implementation application-aware offload engines, network developers can test and develop network protocol offload engines, and researchers can test and develop new offload protocols and middleware. The available hardware offload engines facilitate that development and can improve the performance and scalability of high performance applications, including Data Center applications, large-scale parallel file systems, HPC applications, security/encryption, Big Data, and similar areas.