News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC. Parent comment

Re:Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC by ncmncm on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @04:45PM (#21996129)
I think we get them for much less.

But Netronomes are remarkably cheap, and you can "offload" eBPC to run on the card's custom cores.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC by alexforencich on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:41PM (#21996564)
Netronome cards are a gigantic PITA to program, and they are not capable of the precise timing that we need.
[ Parent | on HN ]