SmartNICs to xPUs Q&A

The SNIA Networking Storage Forum kicked off its xPU webcast series last month with “SmartNICs to xPUs – Why is the Use of Accelerators Accelerating?” where SNIA experts defined what xPUs are, explained how they can accelerate offload functions, and cleared up confusion on many other names associated with xPUs such as SmartNIC, DPU, IPU, APU, NAPU. The webcast was highly-rated by our audience and already has more than 1,300 views. If you missed it, you can watch it on-demand and download a copy of the presentation slides at the SNIA Educational Library.

The live audience asked some interesting questions and here are answers from our presenters.

Q. How can we have redundancy on an xPU?

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