TECHNOLOGY
A range of companies offer technologies that differ considerably in terms of sophistication and price points . These technologies are usually positioned as SmartNICs ( wired networking and computational resources on the same card to offload tasks from server CPUs ) and may be based on field programmable gate array ( FPGA ), application-specific integrated circuit ( ASIC ), or SoC technology , and a dataprocessing unit ( DPU ) – a specific type of SoC – has also been employed in several new chip designs .
Simpson goes on to say : “ Some products go significantly further and offer important capabilities in data-pipeline management to significantly reduce network latency , support inline crypto acceleration , enable the highly secure ‘ enclave ’ isolation of different organisations ’ data sets , and provide the ability to feed network data directly into graphics processing units ( GPUs ) for machine learning predictions . Of course , the capabilities of these devices need to match those of the nextgeneration servers .
108 June 2022