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So, I guess video and network cards are the two most common remaining components that could be called "peripheral processors"? My interpretation of the ( frust
by TristanBall 5y ago
So, I guess video and network cards are the two most common remaining components that could be called "peripheral processors"?
My interpretation of the ( frustratingly sparse ) documentation for the AWS Nitro hardware support seems to imply that it's pushed a bit more of the processing back out to the peripherals - which seems to buck the trend, but also seems highly effective.
For example, so far as I can tell, AWS's NVME drives have a lower latency from within a Nitro EC2 vm than a 905P Optane accessed from a KVM VM with PCIE passthrough on my play machine at home - although it's possible I've done something wrong with the setup!