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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Eitan Frachtenberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mateusz Berezecki, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for a network interface controller (NIC) capable of performing general-purpose computing tasks without intervention from a central processing unit (CPU) are disclosed herein. The network interface controller includes a circuit board, a network interface, a computer bus interface and a processor. The network interface is operatively coupled to the circuit board for receiving network packets. The computer bus interface is operatively coupled to the circuit board for receiving a general-purpose program. The processor is operatively coupled to the circuit board and capable of executing the general-purpose program to process the network packets.