The NFP32xx is the industry's first processor designed for unified computing architectures,combining high performance network,content and security processing with I/O virtualization
- High-Performance: Powered by 40 multi-threaded programmable networking cores running at 1.4 GHz, the NFP delivers over 56 billion instructions per second with 320 hardware threads that optimize memory utilization allowing for 1800 instructions per packet at 30 million packets per second
- This enables 40 Gbps of L2-L7 deep packet processing with line-rate security and I/O virtualization for millions of simultaneous flows
- Power efficiency: Operating at only 15 to 35 watts, the NFP-32xx revolutionizes green computing by delivering more than four times the power efficiency of its closest competitor
- Software-Defined I/O with programmable processing: Unlike fixed-function ASICs and configurable NPUs, the NFPs are the first fully programmable processors capable of addressing the increasingly complex requirements of unified computing architectures. Software-defined I/O supports both L2-L3 packet processing and L4-L7 application- and content-aware deep packet inspection
- This provides the highest level of inspection and throughput available in the industry for traditional NPU applications such as high-performance line cards
- Network Virtualization in Silicon: To scale network performance to 10 Gbps and beyond the NFP-32xx offers a PCIe v2.0 implementation including extended SR-IOV with 256 queues to provide guaranteed bandwidth and low latency access to shared I/O devices
- Source-code compatibility (including backwards-compatibility) with Intel IXP28XX microengines for customer application migration
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