@inproceedings{caulfield2018beyond,
author = {Caulfield, Adrian and Costa, Paolo and Ghobadi, Manya},
title = {Beyond SmartNICs: Towards a Fully Programmable Cloud},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing},
year = {2018},
month = {June},
abstract = {FPGA-based SmartNICs and programmable switches have been recently introduced to leverage hardware acceleration and custom pipelines inside the cloud infrastructure. These devices are capable of handling the per-packet processing needs at line rate, including load balancing, encapsulation, congestion management, and security. We argue, however, that the benefits provided by these new devices could extend beyond software-defined networking use cases and they prompt a shift towards a fully programmable cloud, which would enable hardware-software co-design across all layers, ranging from application to hardware and networks. In this paper, we focus on the potential of FPGA-based SmartNICs and programmable switches to realize this vision and illustrate some of the research
challenges that need to be addressed to fully unleash its benefits.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/beyond-smartnics-towards-fully-programmable-cloud/},
}