Title :
A Scalable Multi-FPGA Platform for Complex Networking Applications
Author :
Sascha Mühlbach;Andreas Koch
Author_Institution :
Secure Things Group, Center for Adv. Security Res. Darmstadt (CASED), Darmstadt, Germany
fDate :
5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Ballooning traffic volumes and increasing link-speeds require ever high compute power to perform complex real-time processing of network packets. FPGAs have already been successfully employed in the past to accelerate network infrastructure-operations at these line-speed processing rates. However, much of the prior work concentrated on single-FPGA platforms. To this end, we have studied how to extend an architecture for 10G application-level network processing into a scalable multi-device system. We present a ring-based approach, of which a quad-FPGA implementation will be evaluated on the BEEcube BEE3 computing platform.
Keywords :
"Field programmable gate arrays","Protocols","Computer architecture","Internet","IP networks","Routing","Program processors"
Conference_Titel :
Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2011 IEEE 19th Annual International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-277-6
DOI :
10.1109/FCCM.2011.26