Awesome SmartNIC

Papers

• Rearchitecting the TCP Stack for I/O-Offloaded Content Delivery. Taehyun Kim, et.al. NSDI, 2023 [Paper]
• AlNiCo: SmartNIC-accelerated Contention-aware Request Scheduling for Transaction Processing. Junru Li, et.al. ATC, 2022 [Paper]
• FpgaNIC: An FPGA-based Versatile 100Gb SmartNIC for GPUs. Zeke Wang, et.al. ATC, 2022 [Paper] [Code]
• Faster Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs with eBPF Program Warping. Marco Bonola, et.al. ATC, 2022 [Paper]
• FlexTOE: Flexible TCP Offload with Fine-Grained Parallelism. Rajath Shashidhara, et.al. NSDI, 2022 [Paper] [Code]
• LineFS: Efficient SmartNIC Offload of a Distributed File System with Pipeline Parallelism. Jongyul Kim, et.al. SOSP, 2021 [Paper]
• Automated SmartNIC Offloading Insights for Network Functions.Yiming Qiu, et.al. SOSP, 2021 [Paper]
• Xenic: SmartNIC-Accelerated Distributed Transactions. Jongyul Kim, et.al. SOSP, 2021 [Paper]

• Gimbal: Enabling Multi-tenant Storage Disaggregation on SmartNIC JBOFs. Jaehong Min, et.al. SIGCOMM, 2021 [Paper]
• The nanoPU: A Nanosecond Network Stack for Datacenters. Stephen Ibanez, et.al. OSDI, 2021 [Paper] [Slide]
• Enabling Compute-Communication Overlap in Distributed Training Platforms. Saeed Rashidi, et.al. ISCA, 2021 [Paper]
• Autonomous NIC offload. Boris Pismenny, et.al. ASPLOS, 2021 [Paper]
• The Programmable Data Plane: Abstractions, Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications. Oliver Michel, et.al. ACM Computing Surveys, 2021 [Paper]
• hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs. Marco Spaziani Brunella, et.al. OSDI, 2020 [Paper] [Slide] [Code]
• PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks. Jiaxin Lin, et. al. OSDI, 2020 [Paper] [Slide] [Code] [Code_cocotb_version]
• Clara: Performance Clarity for SmartNIC Offloading. Yiming Qiu, et.al. HotNets, 2020 [Paper]
• SmartNIC Performance Isolation with FairNIC: Programmable Networking for the Cloud. Stewart Grant, et.al. SIGCOMM, 2020 [Paper]
• A Case for SmartNIC-accelerated Private Communication. Duckwoo Kim, et.al. APNet, 2020 [Paper]
• Corundum: An Open-Source 100-Gbps NIC. Alex Forencich, et.al. FCCM, 2020 [Paper] [Slide] [Code]
• Lynx: A SmartNIC-driven Accelerator-centric Architecture for Network Servers. Maroun Tork, et.al. ASPLOS, 2020 [Paper] [Slide] [Code]
• LeapIO: Efficient and Portable Virtual NVMe Storage on ARM SoCs. Huaicheng Li, et.al. ASPLOS, 2020 [Paper]
• AccelTCP: Accelerating Network Applications with Stateful TCP Offloading. YoungGyoun Moon, et.al. NSDI, 2020 [Paper]
• iPipe: A Framework for Building Distributed Applications on SmartNICs. Ming Liu, et.al. SIGCOMM, 2019 [Paper] [Slide]
• E3: Energy-Efficient Microservices on SmartNIC-Accelerated Servers. Ming Liu, et.al. USENIX ATC, 2019 [Paper]
• NICA: An Infrastructure for Inline Acceleration of Network Applications. Haggai Eran, et.al. USENIX ATC, 2019 [Paper] [Code]
• UniSec: a unified security framework with SmartNIC acceleration in public cloud. Jinli Yan, et.al. TURC, 2019
• Loom: Flexible and Efficient NIC Packet Scheduling. Brent Stephens, et.al. NSDI, 2019 [Paper]
• Floem: A Programming System for NIC-Accelerated Network Applications. Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, et.al. OSDI, 2018 [Paper] [Slide]
• Your Programmable NIC Should be a Programmable Switch. Brent Stephens, et.al. HotNets, 2018 [Paper]
• INCEPTIONN: A Network-Centric Hardware/Algorithm Co-Design to Accelerate Distributed Training of Deep Neural Networks. Youjie Li, et. al. MICRO 2018 [Paper] [Slide]
• Accelerating Flow Processing Middleboxes with Programmable NICs. YoungGyoun Moon, et.al. ACM APSys, 2018 [Paper]
• Towards Converged SmartNIC Architecture for Bare Metal and Public Clouds at Tencent Scale. Layong Luo. APNet, 2018 [Slide]
• Beyond SmartNICs: Towards a Fully Programmable Cloud (Invited Paper). Adrian Caulfield, et.al. HPSR, 2018 [Paper]
• Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud. Daniel Firestone, et.al. NSDI, 2018 [Paper]
• UNO: unifying host and smart NIC offload for flexible packet processing. Yanfang Le, et.al. SoCC 2017 [Paper]
• KV-Direct: High-Performance In-Memory Key-Value Store with Programmable NIC. Bojie Li, et.al. SOSP, 2017 [Paper]
• IncBricks: Toward InNetwork Computation with an In-Network Cache. Ming Liu, et.al. ASPLOS, 2017 [Paper]
• ClickNP: Highly Flexible and High Performance Network Processing with Reconfigurable Hardware. Bojie Li, et.al. SIGCOMM, 2016 [Paper]
• High Performance Packet Processing with FlexNIC. Antoine Kaufmann, et.al. ASPLOS, 2016 [Paper] [Slide]
• FlexNIC: Rethinking Network DMA. Antoine Kaufmann, et.al. HotOS, 2015 [Paper] [Slide]
• Security Offload Using the SmartNIC, A Programmable 10 Gbps Ethernet NIC. Gerald Sabin, et.al. NAECON, 2015 [Paper]

Reports

• Performance Characteristics of the BlueField-2 SmartNIC. Jianshen Liu, et.al. Preprint, 2021[Paper]

• Cisco Nexus SmartNIC. Cisco. 2021 [Website]

• InnovaTM-2 Flex Open Programmable SmartNIC. Mellanox. 2020 [Datasheet]

• Investigating Scientific Workload Acceleration using BlueField SmartNICs. Brody Williams, et.al. OSTI.GOV/Technical Report, 2020 [Report]

• Fungible Ups Data-Center Efficiency. Bob Wheeler, The Linley Group, 2020

• Mellanox Right-Sizes Smart-NIC SoC. Bob Wheeler, The Linley Group, 2019

• Pensando, Xilinx Debut Smart NICs. Bob Wheeler, The Linley Group, 2020

• Exploring Mellanox Bluefield SmartNICs as Accelerators for Heterogeneous Architectures. Brody Williams, et.al. OSTI.GOV/Technical Report, 2019 [Report]

• How to Design SmartNICs Using FPGAs to Increase Server Compute Capacity. Achronix, 2019 [Website]

Projects

• OpenSNAPI: Toward a Unified API for SmartNICs [Website] [Report]
• OpenNIC: An FPGA-based NIC platform for the open source community. Xilinx. [Website] [Related Projects: open-nic-shell, driver] [Video]
• ESnet SmartNIC hardware design repository. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [Code]

Blogs

• What Is a SmartNIC? Kevin Deierling, Mellanox Blog, 2018 [Website ]

• The new life of SmartNICs. Mark Silberstein, ACM SIGARCH, 2018 [Website]

• 如何评价微软在数据中心使用 FPGA 代替传统 CPU 的做法？李博杰，知乎 [Website]

• SmartNIC那些事. 唐杰账号（微信公众号）[Websit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] [Video]

• SmartNICs and SmartSSDs, the Future of Smart Acceleration, Scott Schweitzer, SNIA SDC, 2020 [Website&Slide]

• Have SmartNIC – Will Compute, Scott Schweitzer, ElectronicDesign, 2020-2021[Website]

• https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio

Patents

• REMOTE SMART NIC - BASED SERVICE ACCELERATION. US Patent. US 20200278892A1