{"id":11789,"date":"2013-11-22T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2013-11-22T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T15:57:46","slug":"gpus-would-make-terrific-network-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11789","title":{"rendered":"GPUs would make terrific network monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The task of monitoring networks requires reading all the data packets as they cross the network, which &#8220;requires a lot of data parallelism,&#8221; Wenji said.<\/p>\n<p>Wenji has built a prototype at Fermilab to demonstrate the feasibility of a GPU-based network monitor, using a Nvidia M2070 GPU and an off-the-shelf NIC (network interface card) to capture network traffic. The system could easily be expanded with additional GPUs, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2013\/112113-sc13-gpus-would-make-terrific-276246.html\">Super Computing 13: GPUs would make terrific network monitors &#8211; Network World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The task of monitoring networks requires reading all the data packets as they cross the network, which &#8220;requires a lot of data parallelism,&#8221; Wenji said. Wenji has built a prototype at Fermilab to demonstrate the feasibility of a GPU-based network &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[114,685,469,332],"class_list":["post-11789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-computer-architecture","tag-gpu","tag-network-administration","tag-parallel-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11790,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions\/11790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}