Transitioning Application Platforms to Intel’s Sandy Bridge Microarchitecture

NEI

Abstract:

General-purpose microprocessors have traditionally served within the control plane of communications and networking
equipment, leaving ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits), FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) and various accelerator cards to handle packet processing in the data plane. But that is all beginning to change as Intel's faster and more efficient processors aim to replace many of the Network Processors commonly used in today's enterprise - and carrier-class servers. Intel's processor enhancements are also changing how pre-integrated server application software interoperates with on-board memory, disk drives, RAID controllers, and the Operating System (OS).

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