I wrote an editorial! A lot of us are working on new systems that involve "smart" network interface cards (also known as IPUs or DPUs). It's easy from the outside to see this line of work as another part of the "accelerators for everything" movement
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(and indeed, the hardware acceleration does get you pretty great gofast for reduced energy and cost) but I actually think there's a lot more to the story here. Read here about why I think smartNICs are shifting the center of gravity within server architectures and
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