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A New Twist On PCI-Express Switching For The Datacenter

October 2, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

While there are plenty of distributed applications that are going to chew through the hundreds of gigabits per second of bandwidth per port that modern Ethernet or InfiniBand ASICs deliver inside of switches, there are still others that might benefit from having a more streamlined stack that is also more malleable and composable. …

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