Intel Corporation

Stephen Doyle

Patrick Fleming

John Joseph Browne

Kshitij Arun Doshi

Chris MacNamara

Eliel Louzoun

Manasi Deval

Lokpraveen B Mosur

Andrey Chilikin

Tomasz Kantecki

Noam Elati

Brendan Ryan

Anthony L Kelly

Krishnamurthy Jambur Sathyanarayana

Fiona Trahe

Ned M Smith

Patrick L Connor

Andrew Cunningham

Gregory J Bowers

Bo Cui

Uzair Qureshi

Brian A Keating

Ciara Loftus

Yadong Li

Anjali Singhai Jain

Ilango S Ganga

Edwin Verplanke

Doddaballapur N Jayasimha

Daniel Daly

Mark Debbage

Sailesh Bissessur

Christopher MacNamara

Chih-Jen Chang

Niall Power

Naveen Lakkakula

Atul Kwatra

Naru Dames Sundar

Richard Guerin

Zhu Zhou

Conor Ferguson

Robert Cone

Charitra Sankar

Ralph Castro

Xiaotian Gao

An apparatus, a method, and a computer program for generating data packets according to a transport protocol from an application buffer comprising a plurality of data streams is provided. The apparatus comprises an input circuit configured to receive metadata comprising at least one of information about data packet types supported by the transport protocol, information about an offset and a length of the supported data packet types, and information about possible stream header start positions, possible payload start positions and possible offsets in the data streams. Further, the apparatus comprises a parsing circuit configured to identify offsets in an application buffer as possible segmentation points based on the metadata, to segment the application buffer at the possible segmentation points into segments for data packets, and to generate data packets according to the transport protocol based on the segments. Furthermore, an apparatus, a method and a computer program for processing the application buffer is provided.

Concept for segmenting an application buffer into data packets

Examples described herein relate to a network interface device that includes circuitry, configured to perform encryption of data, generate one or more packets from the encrypted data, cause transmission of the one or more packets with the encrypted data, manage reliability of transport of the transmitted one or more packets with the encrypted data, and share protocol state information between a host system and the network interface device using connectivity based on user space accessible queues.

Transport and cryptography offload to a network interface device

A computing device includes a direct memory access (DMA) engine coupled to a memory, a network interface, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is to perform a secure exchange with a second computing device to negotiate a shared encryption key, based on a request for data received via the network interface from the second computing device. The DMA engine is to retrieve the data from a storage location based on an encryption command. The encryption command indicates the storage location. The DMA engine is to encrypt the data based on the shared encryption key to generate encrypted data, and store the encrypted data in the memory.

Cryptographic data processing using a DMA engine

Examples described herein relate to a network device apparatus that includes a network interface card to process a received packet. In some examples, based on the received packet only including one or more frames for which acknowledgement of receipt is offloaded to the network interface card, generate an acknowledgement (ACK) message to acknowledge receipt of the received packet. In some examples, a frame for which acknowledgement of receipt is offloaded to the network interface card comprises a STREAM frame compatible with quick User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Internet Connections (QUIC). In some examples, a computing platform is coupled to the network interface card. In some examples, based on the received packet only including any frame for which acknowledgement of receipt is not offloaded to the network interface, the computing platform is to generate an ACK message for the received packet.

Offload of acknowledgements to a network device

In one embodiment, a system includes a device and a host. The device includes a device stream buffer. The host includes a processor to execute at least a first application and a second application, a host stream buffer, and a host scheduler. The first application is associated with a first transmit streaming channel to stream first data from the first application to the device stream buffer. The first transmit streaming channel has a first allocated amount of buffer space in the device stream buffer. The host scheduler schedules enqueue of the first data from the first application to the first transmit streaming channel based at least in part on availability of space in the first allocated amount of buffer space in the device stream buffer. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

System, apparatus, and method for streaming input/output data

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to control execution of tasks in a computing system. The methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture include at least one storage device and at least one processor to, execute instructions to at least obtain a request to perform an inverse operation on a data flow, the data flow previously transformed during a forward operation, determine a first processor core that executed the forward operation, the data flow including an identifier of the first processor core, and transmit the data flow to a second processor core to perform the inverse operation.

Methods and apparatus to control execution of tasks in a computing system

Methods and apparatus for hierarchical reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for network function virtualization (NFV) server power management. A first RL model at a first layer is trained by adjusting a frequency of the core of processor while performing a workload to obtain a first trained RL model. The trained RL model is operated in an inference mode while training a second RL model at a second level in the RL hierarchy by adjusting a frequency of the core and a frequency of processor circuitry external to the core to obtain a second trained RL model. Training may be performed online or offline. The first and second RL models are operated in inference modes during online operations to adjust the frequency of the core and the frequency of the circuitry external to the core while executing software on the plurality of cores of to perform a workload, such as an NFV workload.

Hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm for NFV server power management

Methods, systems, and use cases for one-touch inline cryptographic data security are discussed, including an edge computing device with a network communications circuitry (NCC), an enhanced DMA engine coupled to a memory device and including a cryptographic engine, and processing circuitry configured to perform a secure exchange with a second edge computing device to negotiate a shared symmetric encryption key, based on a request for data. An inline encryption command for communication to the enhanced DMA engine is generated. The inline encryption command includes a first address associated with a storage location storing the data, a second address associated with a memory location in the memory device, and the shared symmetric encryption key. The data is retrieved from the storage location using the first address, the data is encrypted using the shared symmetric encryption key, and the encrypted data is stored in the memory location using the second address.

One-touch inline cryptographic data processing

A computing device includes an appliance status table to store at least one of reliability and performance data for one or more network functions virtualization (NFV) appliances and one or more legacy network appliances. The computing device includes a load controller to configure an Internet Protocol (IP) filter rule to select a packet for which processing of the packet is to be migrated from a selected one of the one or more legacy network appliances to a selected one of the one or more NFV appliances, and to update the appliance status table with received at least one of reliability and performance data for the one or more legacy network appliances and the one or more NFV appliances. The computing device includes a packet distributor to receive the packet, to select one of the one or more NFV appliances based at least in part on the appliance status table, and to send the packet to the selected NFV appliance. Other embodiments are described herein.

Migration from a legacy network appliance to a network function virtualization (NFV) appliance

An apparatus, a method and a computer program for generating data packets according to a transport protocol from an application buffer comprising a plurality of data streams is provided. The apparatus comprises an input circuit configured to receive metadata comprising at least one of information about data packet types supported by the transport protocol, information about an offset and a length of the supported data packet types, and information about possible stream header start positions, possible payload start positions and possible offsets in the data streams. Further, the apparatus comprises a parsing circuit configured to identify offsets in an application buffer as possible segmentation points based on the metadata, to segment the application buffer at the possible segmentation points into segments for data packets, and to generate data packets according to the transport protocol based on the segments. Furthermore, an apparatus, a method and a computer program for processing the application buffer is provided.

A network interface device, including: an ingress interface; a host platform interface to communicatively couple to a host platform; and a packet preprocessor including logic to: receive via the ingress interface a data sequence including a plurality of discrete data units; identify the data sequence as data for a parallel processing operation; reorder the discrete data units into a reordered data frame, the reordered data frame configured to order the discrete data units for consumption by the parallel operation; and send the reordered data to the host platform via the host platform interface.

Reordering of data for parallel processing

Examples include techniques to monitor control plane (CP) network traffic. Examples include monitoring CP traffic between one or more user equipment (UEs) wirelessly coupled to a network and a virtual network function arranged to process user plane (UP) traffic for an application service provided to the one or more UEs to determine whether at least a portion of the UP traffic needs to be routed to a different VNF for UP processing.

Techniques to monitor control plane network traffic

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