5G,8K视频等新业务类型不断涌现,使得网络处理器(network processor,NP)的应用场景日趋复杂多样.为满足多样化网络应用在性能、灵活性以及服务质量保证等方面的差异化需求,传统NP试图在片上系统(system on chip,SoC)上集成大量处理器核...5G,8K视频等新业务类型不断涌现,使得网络处理器(network processor,NP)的应用场景日趋复杂多样.为满足多样化网络应用在性能、灵活性以及服务质量保证等方面的差异化需求,传统NP试图在片上系统(system on chip,SoC)上集成大量处理器核、高速缓存、加速器等异质处理资源,提供面向多样化应用场景的敏捷可定制能力.然而,随着摩尔定律和登纳德缩放定律失效问题的逐渐凸显,单片NP芯片研制在研发周期、成本、创新迭代等方面面临巨大挑战,越来越难以为继.针对上述问题,提出新型敏捷可定制NP架构ChipletNP,基于芯粒化(Chiplet)技术解耦异质资源,在充分利用成熟芯片产品及工艺的基础上,通过多个芯粒组合,满足不同应用场景下NP的快速定制和演化发展需求.基于ChipletNP设计实现了一款集成商用CPU、FPGA(field programmable gate array)和自研敏捷交换芯粒的银河衡芯敏捷NP芯片(YHHX-NP).基于该芯片的应用部署与实验结果表明,ChipletNP可支持NP的快速敏捷定制,能够有效承载SRv6(segment routing over IPv6)等新型网络协议与网络功能部署.其中,核心的敏捷交换芯粒相较于同级商用芯片能效比提升2倍以上,延迟控制在2.82μs以内,可以有效支持面向NP的Chiplet统一通信与集成.展开更多
The availability of computers and communication networks allows us to gather and analyse data on a far larger scale than previously. At present, it is believed that statistics is a suitable method to analyse networks ...The availability of computers and communication networks allows us to gather and analyse data on a far larger scale than previously. At present, it is believed that statistics is a suitable method to analyse networks with millions, or more, of vertices. The MATLAB language, with its mass of statistical functions, is a good choice to rapidly realize an algorithm prototype of complex networks. The performance of the MATLAB codes can be further improved by using graphic processor units （GPU）. This paper presents the strategies and performance of the GPU implementation of a complex networks package, and the Jacket toolbox of MATLAB is used. Compared with some commercially available CPU implementations, GPU can achieve a speedup of, on average, 11.3x. The experimental result proves that the GPU platform combined with the MATLAB language is a good combination for complex network research.展开更多
Virtualization is the key technology of cloud computing. Network virtualization plays an important role in this field. Its performance is very relevant to network virtualizing. Nowadays its implementations are mainly ...Virtualization is the key technology of cloud computing. Network virtualization plays an important role in this field. Its performance is very relevant to network virtualizing. Nowadays its implementations are mainly based on the idea of Software Define Network (SDN). Open vSwitch is a sort of software virtual switch, which conforms to the OpenFlow protocol standard. It is basically deployed in the Linux kernel hypervisor. This leads to its performance relatively poor because of the limited system resource. In turn, the packet process throughput is very low.In this paper, we present a Cavium-based Open vSwitch implementation. The Cavium platform features with multi cores and couples of hard ac-celerators. It supports zero-copy of packets and handles packet more quickly. We also carry some experiments on the platform. It indicates that we can use it in the enterprise network or campus network as convergence layer and core layer device.展开更多
Network processing plays an important role in the development of Internet as more and more complicated applications are deployed throughout the network. With the advent of new platforms such as network processors (NPs...Network processing plays an important role in the development of Internet as more and more complicated applications are deployed throughout the network. With the advent of new platforms such as network processors (NPs) that incorporate novel architectures to speedup packet processing, there is an increasing need for an efficient method to facilitate the study of their performance. In this paper, we present a tool called SimNP, which provides a flexible platform for the simulation of a network processing system in order to provide information for workload characterization, architecture development, and application implementation. The simulator models several architectural features that are commonly employed by NPs, including multiple processing engines (PEs), integrated network interface and memory controller, and hardware accelerators. ARM instruction set is emulated and a simple memory model is provided so that applications implemented in high level programming language such as C can be easily compiled into an executable binary using a common compiler like gcc. Moreover, new features or new modules can also be easily added into this simulator. Experiments have shown that our simulator provides abundant information for the study of network processing systems.展开更多
Network processors (NPs) are widely used for programmable and high-performance networks;however, the programs for NPs are less portable, the number of NP program developers is small, and the development cost is high. ...Network processors (NPs) are widely used for programmable and high-performance networks;however, the programs for NPs are less portable, the number of NP program developers is small, and the development cost is high. To solve these problems, this paper proposes an open, high-level, and portable programming language called “Phonepl”, which is independent from vendor-specific proprietary hardware and software but can be translated into an NP program with high performance especially in the memory use. A common NP hardware feature is that a whole packet is stored in DRAM, but the header is cached in SRAM. Phonepl has a hardware-independent abstraction of this feature so that it allows programmers mostly unconscious of this hardware feature. To implement the abstraction, four representations of packet data type that cover all the packet operations (including substring, concatenation, input, and output) are introduced. Phonepl have been implemented on Octeon NPs used in plug-ins for a network-virtualization environment called the VNode Infrastructure, and several packet-handling programs were evaluated. As for the evaluation result, the conversion throughput is close to the wire rate, i.e., 10 Gbps, and no packet loss (by cache miss) occurs when the packet size is 256 bytes or larger.展开更多
As the traditional RISC+ASIC/ASSP approach for network processor design can not meet the today’s requirements, this paper described an alternate approach, Reconfigurable Processing Architecture, to boost the performa...As the traditional RISC+ASIC/ASSP approach for network processor design can not meet the today’s requirements, this paper described an alternate approach, Reconfigurable Processing Architecture, to boost the performance to ASIC level while reserve the programmability of the traditional RISC based system. This paper covers both the hardware architecture and the software development environment architecture.展开更多
Network processors are used in the core node of network to flexibly process packet streams. With the increase of performance, the power of network processor increases fast, and power and cooling become a bottleneck. A...Network processors are used in the core node of network to flexibly process packet streams. With the increase of performance, the power of network processor increases fast, and power and cooling become a bottleneck. Architecture-level power conscious design must go beyond low-level circuit design. Architectural power and performance tradeoff should be considered at the same time. Simulation is an efficient method to design modem network processor before making chip. In order to achieve the tradeoff between performance and power, the processor simulator is used to design the architecture of network processor. Using Netbeneh, Commubench benchmark and processor simulator-SimpleScalar, the performance and power of network processor are quantitatively evaluated. New performance tradeoff evaluation metric is proposed to analyze the architecture of network processor. Based on the high performance lnteI IXP 2800 Network processor eonfignration, optimized instruction fetch width and speed ,instruction issue width, instruction window size are analyzed and selected. Simulation resuits show that the tradeoff design method makes the usage of network processor more effectively. The optimal key parameters of network processor are important in architecture-level design. It is meaningful for the next generation network processor design.展开更多
This paper presents a new encryption embedded processor aimed at the application requirement of wireless sensor network （WSN）. The new encryption embedded processor not only offers Rivest Shamir Adlemen （RSA）, Adv...This paper presents a new encryption embedded processor aimed at the application requirement of wireless sensor network （WSN）. The new encryption embedded processor not only offers Rivest Shamir Adlemen （RSA）, Advanced Encryption Standard （AES）, 3 Data Encryption Standard （3 DES） and Secure Hash Algorithm 1 （SHA - 1 ） security engines, but also involves a new memory encryption scheme. The new memory encryption scheme is implemented by a memory encryption cache （MEC）, which protects the confidentiality of the memory by AES encryption. The experi- ments show that the new secure design only causes 1.9% additional delay on the critical path and cuts 25.7% power consumption when the processor writes data back. The new processor balances the performance overhead, the power consumption and the security and fully meets the wireless sensor environment requirement. After physical design, the new encryption embedded processor has been successfully tape-out.展开更多
文摘5G,8K视频等新业务类型不断涌现,使得网络处理器(network processor,NP)的应用场景日趋复杂多样.为满足多样化网络应用在性能、灵活性以及服务质量保证等方面的差异化需求,传统NP试图在片上系统(system on chip,SoC)上集成大量处理器核、高速缓存、加速器等异质处理资源,提供面向多样化应用场景的敏捷可定制能力.然而,随着摩尔定律和登纳德缩放定律失效问题的逐渐凸显,单片NP芯片研制在研发周期、成本、创新迭代等方面面临巨大挑战,越来越难以为继.针对上述问题,提出新型敏捷可定制NP架构ChipletNP,基于芯粒化(Chiplet)技术解耦异质资源,在充分利用成熟芯片产品及工艺的基础上,通过多个芯粒组合,满足不同应用场景下NP的快速定制和演化发展需求.基于ChipletNP设计实现了一款集成商用CPU、FPGA(field programmable gate array)和自研敏捷交换芯粒的银河衡芯敏捷NP芯片(YHHX-NP).基于该芯片的应用部署与实验结果表明,ChipletNP可支持NP的快速敏捷定制,能够有效承载SRv6(segment routing over IPv6)等新型网络协议与网络功能部署.其中,核心的敏捷交换芯粒相较于同级商用芯片能效比提升2倍以上,延迟控制在2.82μs以内,可以有效支持面向NP的Chiplet统一通信与集成.
基金Project supported by the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.60921062)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.60873014)the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.61003082 and 60903059)
文摘The availability of computers and communication networks allows us to gather and analyse data on a far larger scale than previously. At present, it is believed that statistics is a suitable method to analyse networks with millions, or more, of vertices. The MATLAB language, with its mass of statistical functions, is a good choice to rapidly realize an algorithm prototype of complex networks. The performance of the MATLAB codes can be further improved by using graphic processor units （GPU）. This paper presents the strategies and performance of the GPU implementation of a complex networks package, and the Jacket toolbox of MATLAB is used. Compared with some commercially available CPU implementations, GPU can achieve a speedup of, on average, 11.3x. The experimental result proves that the GPU platform combined with the MATLAB language is a good combination for complex network research.
文摘Virtualization is the key technology of cloud computing. Network virtualization plays an important role in this field. Its performance is very relevant to network virtualizing. Nowadays its implementations are mainly based on the idea of Software Define Network (SDN). Open vSwitch is a sort of software virtual switch, which conforms to the OpenFlow protocol standard. It is basically deployed in the Linux kernel hypervisor. This leads to its performance relatively poor because of the limited system resource. In turn, the packet process throughput is very low.In this paper, we present a Cavium-based Open vSwitch implementation. The Cavium platform features with multi cores and couples of hard ac-celerators. It supports zero-copy of packets and handles packet more quickly. We also carry some experiments on the platform. It indicates that we can use it in the enterprise network or campus network as convergence layer and core layer device.
文摘Network processing plays an important role in the development of Internet as more and more complicated applications are deployed throughout the network. With the advent of new platforms such as network processors (NPs) that incorporate novel architectures to speedup packet processing, there is an increasing need for an efficient method to facilitate the study of their performance. In this paper, we present a tool called SimNP, which provides a flexible platform for the simulation of a network processing system in order to provide information for workload characterization, architecture development, and application implementation. The simulator models several architectural features that are commonly employed by NPs, including multiple processing engines (PEs), integrated network interface and memory controller, and hardware accelerators. ARM instruction set is emulated and a simple memory model is provided so that applications implemented in high level programming language such as C can be easily compiled into an executable binary using a common compiler like gcc. Moreover, new features or new modules can also be easily added into this simulator. Experiments have shown that our simulator provides abundant information for the study of network processing systems.
文摘Network processors (NPs) are widely used for programmable and high-performance networks;however, the programs for NPs are less portable, the number of NP program developers is small, and the development cost is high. To solve these problems, this paper proposes an open, high-level, and portable programming language called “Phonepl”, which is independent from vendor-specific proprietary hardware and software but can be translated into an NP program with high performance especially in the memory use. A common NP hardware feature is that a whole packet is stored in DRAM, but the header is cached in SRAM. Phonepl has a hardware-independent abstraction of this feature so that it allows programmers mostly unconscious of this hardware feature. To implement the abstraction, four representations of packet data type that cover all the packet operations (including substring, concatenation, input, and output) are introduced. Phonepl have been implemented on Octeon NPs used in plug-ins for a network-virtualization environment called the VNode Infrastructure, and several packet-handling programs were evaluated. As for the evaluation result, the conversion throughput is close to the wire rate, i.e., 10 Gbps, and no packet loss (by cache miss) occurs when the packet size is 256 bytes or larger.
文摘As the traditional RISC+ASIC/ASSP approach for network processor design can not meet the today’s requirements, this paper described an alternate approach, Reconfigurable Processing Architecture, to boost the performance to ASIC level while reserve the programmability of the traditional RISC based system. This paper covers both the hardware architecture and the software development environment architecture.
基金Sponsored by the National Defence Research Foundation of China(Grant No.413460303).
文摘Network processors are used in the core node of network to flexibly process packet streams. With the increase of performance, the power of network processor increases fast, and power and cooling become a bottleneck. Architecture-level power conscious design must go beyond low-level circuit design. Architectural power and performance tradeoff should be considered at the same time. Simulation is an efficient method to design modem network processor before making chip. In order to achieve the tradeoff between performance and power, the processor simulator is used to design the architecture of network processor. Using Netbeneh, Commubench benchmark and processor simulator-SimpleScalar, the performance and power of network processor are quantitatively evaluated. New performance tradeoff evaluation metric is proposed to analyze the architecture of network processor. Based on the high performance lnteI IXP 2800 Network processor eonfignration, optimized instruction fetch width and speed ,instruction issue width, instruction window size are analyzed and selected. Simulation resuits show that the tradeoff design method makes the usage of network processor more effectively. The optimal key parameters of network processor are important in architecture-level design. It is meaningful for the next generation network processor design.
文摘This paper presents a new encryption embedded processor aimed at the application requirement of wireless sensor network （WSN）. The new encryption embedded processor not only offers Rivest Shamir Adlemen （RSA）, Advanced Encryption Standard （AES）, 3 Data Encryption Standard （3 DES） and Secure Hash Algorithm 1 （SHA - 1 ） security engines, but also involves a new memory encryption scheme. The new memory encryption scheme is implemented by a memory encryption cache （MEC）, which protects the confidentiality of the memory by AES encryption. The experi- ments show that the new secure design only causes 1.9% additional delay on the critical path and cuts 25.7% power consumption when the processor writes data back. The new processor balances the performance overhead, the power consumption and the security and fully meets the wireless sensor environment requirement. After physical design, the new encryption embedded processor has been successfully tape-out.
