Offloading parts of the network stack from processors to specialized circuits on network adapter cards is not a new idea. The InfiniBand cards used by HPC centers have been doing this to speed up ...

Wi-Fi offloading allows mobile phones to redirect their data traffic from cellular networks to nearby Wi-Fi networks when ...

In the early days of computer networking, managing everything with the CPU (onloading) was the obvious choice because it provided a general-purpose computational engine that could perform a variety of ...

ISAs can boost performance 5X and free up as many as 11 CPU cores from network-related processing, enabling greater VM scalability and lower costs This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by ...

Offloading network solutions eliminate the CPU overhead related to process-to-process communications, data transfer reliability, memory translations and process protections (or security) and data ...

Various brands and configurations of virtual machine network interface cards, or VMNics, are known to cause occasional repetitive errors resulting in slowing the CPU's processing capacity. Three ...

i played a bit on a box or two with the settings and it seems to have a positive effect on performance. any gurus out there have input on using TCP offloading? the vendor specifics listed in the "why ...