The Virtual Interface Architecture

Dave Dunning, G. Regnier, G. McAlpine, David Cameron, B. Shubert, François Berry, A.M. Merritt, E. Gronke, Connor Dodd

IEEE Micro · 1998 · 291 citations · 19 references

Concepts

Abstract

This protected, zero-copy, user-level network interface architecture reduces the system overhead for sending and receiving messages between high-performance CPU/memory subsystems and networks to less than 10 microseconds when integrated in silicon.

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