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14th IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HOTI'06)
ExpressEther - Ethernet-Based Virtualization Technology for Reconfigurable Hardware Platform
Stanford, CA
August 23-August 25
ISBN: 0-7695-2654-3
Jun Suzuki, NEC Corporation, Japan
Yoichi Hidaka, NEC Corporation, Japan
Junichi Higuchi, NEC Corporation, Japan
Takashi Yoshikawa, NEC Corporation, Japan
Atsushi Iwata, NEC Corporation, Japan
We propose ExpressEther as Ethernet-based virtualization technology for a reconfigurable hardware platform. It groups modularized hardware resources interconnected by an Ethernet, and transports a PCI Express (PCIe) packet between the grouped modules by encapsulating it into an Ethernet frame. The configuration of the group is dynamically reconfigured by an Ethernet connection, followed by standardized PCIe hot-plug event. Such reconfigurability enables sharing of a physical resource among computer entities. We demonstrate that an I/O device is shared by servers, using our developed prototype consisted of an interface card and I/O concentrator. A commercially available server and serial ATA card are used for the demonstration, without any change for an operating system, device driver, PCIe interface, and Ethernet switch. The benchmark of I/O performance shows at most 16% degradation, which is caused by the implementation matters of our prototype. No degradation is measured when data flow from an I/O to a server.
Citation:
Jun Suzuki, Yoichi Hidaka, Junichi Higuchi, Takashi Yoshikawa, Atsushi Iwata, "ExpressEther - Ethernet-Based Virtualization Technology for Reconfigurable Hardware Platform," hoti, pp.45-51, 14th IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HOTI'06), 2006
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