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I feel like there's a disconnect between the HPC community, which has publicly deployed these techniques for years, and the broader tech community. Even some en
by acconsta 11y ago
I feel like there's a disconnect between the HPC community, which has publicly deployed these techniques for years, and the broader tech community. Even some enterprise hardware uses InfiniBand (with kernel bypass) these days.
Yet you never hear about Google or AWS using kernel bypass in their load balancers, for example (possibly a trade secret, possibly the result of Linux monoculture).
- lukego 11y agoI reckon that networking is transitioning from being a system programming problem (interrupt - switch to kernel - grab packet - process quickly - switch back) to being a HPC problem (infinite stream of packets arriving in memory). ISPs are where I expect to see the disruption of HPC-oriented x86 servers being supremely capable of handling work previously done by specialized hardware.