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360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
360 Zhihui Cloud Developer
Aug 7, 2025 · Operations

How to Accelerate OVS with Mellanox ConnectX‑6: Hardware Offload Design & Implementation

This article explains the challenges of using community OVS with Mellanox ConnectX‑6 NIC for hardware offload, details the design and implementation of Cx6 offload configuration, flow‑table match/action adaptation, Conn‑based large‑flow offload, and the coordination mechanism between hardware‑offloaded and software flow tables to achieve significant CPU savings while preserving security‑group and connection‑tracking correctness.

ConnectX-6DPDKHardware offload
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How to Accelerate OVS with Mellanox ConnectX‑6: Hardware Offload Design & Implementation
vivo Internet Technology
vivo Internet Technology
Feb 19, 2025 · Backend Development

vivo HTTPDNS End-to-End Integrated Solution: Architecture, Optimizations, and Business Impact

vivo’s end‑to‑end HTTPDNS solution integrates a client SDK, high‑performance service, unified scheduling gateway, and full‑link monitoring, cutting resolution latency by 36%, boosting DNS success to 99.85%, handling 1.5 billion queries daily, and preventing hijacking and misblocking across its ecosystem.

Backend DevelopmentDNS ResolutionHTTPDNS
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vivo HTTPDNS End-to-End Integrated Solution: Architecture, Optimizations, and Business Impact
AI Cyberspace
AI Cyberspace
Jun 16, 2024 · Operations

Inside Intel HDSLB: Architecture and Advanced Load‑Balancing Features

This article walks through Intel's high‑density scalable load balancer (HDSLB), detailing its layered software architecture, advanced elephant‑flow handling, fast/slow‑path separation, packet‑forwarding optimizations, and provides a deep code analysis of its configuration, initialization, and data‑plane job execution.

DPDKElephant flowIntel HDSLB
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Inside Intel HDSLB: Architecture and Advanced Load‑Balancing Features
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Feb 22, 2024 · Industry Insights

How DPU Technology is Transforming Cloud Data Centers: From NICs to SoC

From traditional NICs to smart NICs, FPGA‑based DPUs and single‑chip DPU SoCs, this article analyzes the evolution of network adapters, their hardware capabilities, design challenges, and real‑world deployments by cloud providers such as AWS, Nvidia, Intel, Alibaba Cloud and Volcano Engine.

DPUData centerNetwork Acceleration
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How DPU Technology is Transforming Cloud Data Centers: From NICs to SoC
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Oct 3, 2023 · Fundamentals

Survey on In‑Network Storage Systems

This survey systematically reviews the research progress of in‑network storage systems, covering programmable network hardware characteristics, the two main challenges of building high‑performance solutions, task‑based classification of existing systems, representative designs, and future research directions such as switch‑NIC collaboration, multi‑tenant support, security, and automatic offloading.

CacheConsistencyDistributed Systems
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Survey on In‑Network Storage Systems
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Jun 8, 2023 · Industry Insights

Why SmartNICs Are Redefining Data Center Performance: 2023 China Industry Report

The 2023 China SmartNIC industry report examines how programmable network cards offload CPU workloads, outlines their classifications, tracks rapid technological evolution, analyzes the supply chain, quantifies market growth to 692 billion CNY by 2026, and evaluates the competitive landscape among emerging vendors.

China MarketDPUData center
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Why SmartNICs Are Redefining Data Center Performance: 2023 China Industry Report
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Mar 2, 2023 · Mobile Development

How Alibaba’s AWCN Transforms Mobile App Network Performance in Weak Networks

This article details the evolution of Alibaba's unified mobile network library AWCN, explaining its MobileSDN architecture, multi‑protocol scheduling, connection management, vendor acceleration, and weak‑network mitigation techniques that together improve request reliability and user experience across billions of app sessions.

AWCNNetwork AccelerationSDN
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How Alibaba’s AWCN Transforms Mobile App Network Performance in Weak Networks
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Aug 18, 2022 · Cloud Computing

NVIDIA BlueField DPU Series: Architecture, Features, and Ecosystem Overview

The article provides a comprehensive overview of NVIDIA's BlueField DPU series—including BlueField‑2,‑3, and‑4—detailing their high‑performance architecture, network, security, and storage capabilities, as well as the DOCA development ecosystem that enables programmable acceleration for modern cloud data‑center workloads.

BlueFieldDPUData center
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NVIDIA BlueField DPU Series: Architecture, Features, and Ecosystem Overview
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Feb 14, 2022 · Cloud Native

How Merbridge Uses eBPF to Accelerate Istio Traffic: A Deep Dive

Merbridge, an open‑source project, replaces Istio’s iptables‑based traffic handling with eBPF sockops and redir, dramatically reducing kernel processing steps, improving latency and QPS, and providing seamless integration without modifying existing Istio configurations.

IstioNetwork AccelerationService Mesh
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How Merbridge Uses eBPF to Accelerate Istio Traffic: A Deep Dive
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Jan 20, 2022 · Industry Insights

Why NVIDIA’s BlueField DPU Is Redefining Modern Data Center Architecture

The 2021 China DPU Industry Whitepaper outlines how NVIDIA’s BlueField DPU series—BlueField‑2, the upcoming 400 Gb/s BlueField‑3, and future BlueField‑4—offload and accelerate networking, storage, security, and AI workloads, offering programmable ARM cores, high‑performance NICs, and a rich DOCA ecosystem that reshapes data‑center infrastructure.

BlueFieldDOCADPU
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Why NVIDIA’s BlueField DPU Is Redefining Modern Data Center Architecture
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Dec 17, 2021 · Operations

Overview of Data Processing Units (DPUs) and Their Role in Modern Data Centers

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Data Processing Units (DPUs), tracing their evolution from smart NICs, explaining their architecture, advantages such as workload offloading, zero‑trust security, and compute‑storage separation, and discussing future trends and NVIDIA's roadmap for integrated CPU‑GPU‑DPU solutions in data‑center and edge environments.

DPUData centerNetwork Acceleration
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Overview of Data Processing Units (DPUs) and Their Role in Modern Data Centers
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Nov 23, 2021 · Fundamentals

Reading Notes on OSDI20 Best Paper hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs

This article reviews the OSDI20 best paper on hXDP, explaining why combining XDP with FPGA NICs can alleviate CPU bottlenecks, describing the challenges of eBPF offload to low‑frequency FPGA, and summarizing the custom instruction‑set optimizations and test results that achieve comparable performance to multi‑GHz CPUs.

FPGAInstruction Set OptimizationNetwork Acceleration
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Reading Notes on OSDI20 Best Paper hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Jul 14, 2021 · Cloud Computing

How Smart NICs Transform Data Center Performance and Cloud Computing

Smart NICs offload networking, storage, and security workloads from host CPUs, leveraging multi‑core ASICs, FPGA, and hybrid designs to boost throughput, reduce latency, and enable programmable data‑plane functions, making them essential for modern cloud, SDN, NFV, and hyper‑converged data‑center architectures.

ASICFPGANetwork Acceleration
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How Smart NICs Transform Data Center Performance and Cloud Computing
Java Captain
Java Captain
Mar 14, 2021 · Operations

How to Accelerate GitHub Access: Mirrors, Proxies, and Hosts File Tweaks

This article presents nine practical methods to speed up GitHub access, including using mirror sites, Cloudflare Workers proxies, download accelerators, Chrome extensions, raw content CDNs, JsDelivr, Gitee repository forks, and manual hosts file modifications, with step‑by‑step instructions and relevant URLs.

MirrorNetwork AccelerationProxy
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How to Accelerate GitHub Access: Mirrors, Proxies, and Hosts File Tweaks
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Oct 23, 2020 · Industry Insights

What Makes a SmartNIC Different from Traditional NICs? A Deep Dive into Leading Products

The article defines SmartNICs, outlines their key capabilities such as off‑loading processing to programmable hardware, compares major vendor implementations—including Broadcom, Nvidia/Mellanox, Intel, Xilinx, Netronome, and Pensando—and discusses market trends that position SmartNICs as the next wave of FPGA‑based acceleration for data‑center workloads.

Data centerFPGAIndustry analysis
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What Makes a SmartNIC Different from Traditional NICs? A Deep Dive into Leading Products
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Sep 25, 2020 · Cloud Computing

SmartNICs: Types, Benefits, and Design Strategies for Data‑Center Acceleration

The article explains how SmartNICs—available as multi‑core ASIC, FPGA‑based, or FPGA‑enhanced designs—offload networking, storage, and compute tasks from CPUs, improve bandwidth and power efficiency, and outlines their architectural forms, development methods, and example feature extensions for modern data‑center environments.

ASICData centerFPGA
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SmartNICs: Types, Benefits, and Design Strategies for Data‑Center Acceleration
Cloud Native Technology Community
Cloud Native Technology Community
Apr 15, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Azure's FPGA-Based Network Acceleration: Design Goals, Hardware Comparisons, and Performance Evaluation

The article reviews Azure's shift from pure software and ASIC networking to an FPGA‑based data‑plane solution, outlining the design motivations, comparing ASIC, multicore NIC, CPU, and FPGA approaches, addressing common FPGA concerns, and presenting performance results that show significant latency and throughput improvements over traditional software stacks.

AzureFPGANetwork Acceleration
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Azure's FPGA-Based Network Acceleration: Design Goals, Hardware Comparisons, and Performance Evaluation
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Nov 13, 2019 · Industry Insights

How SmartNICs Transform Data Center Performance: Types, Benefits, and Design Strategies

The article explains how SmartNICs offload networking, storage, and compute tasks from CPUs to improve server performance and reduce power consumption, outlines three SmartNIC architectures—multicore ASIC, FPGA‑based, and FPGA‑enhanced—and details design methods and functional extensions illustrated with thirteen practical examples.

ASICData centerFPGA
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How SmartNICs Transform Data Center Performance: Types, Benefits, and Design Strategies
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
May 17, 2019 · Operations

Design and Implementation of an SD-WAN Based Network Acceleration Platform

iQIYI’s SD‑WAN‑based Network Acceleration Platform builds an overlay over the existing underlay, separating business control, routing, and data‑forwarding layers to provide automated, policy‑driven acceleration for physical hosts, virtual machines and other services, while offering flexible inter‑node routing, unified management, and fault‑tolerant, QoS‑aware path selection.

BGPNetwork AccelerationOverlay Network
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Design and Implementation of an SD-WAN Based Network Acceleration Platform