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1 WARFP 2006 NetFPGA Greg Watson Prof. Nick McKeown, Martin Casado High Performance Networking Group Stanford and many Stanford students…
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NetFPGA. Greg Watson Prof. Nick McKeown, Martin Casado High Performance Networking Group Stanford and many Stanford students…. NetFPGA. Board Software Vendor Tools Class material. Teach Network System design at under-graduate and graduate level classes. Overview. Motivation Version 1 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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1 WARFP 2006
NetFPGA
Greg WatsonProf. Nick McKeown, Martin Casado
High Performance Networking GroupStanford
and many Stanford students…
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NetFPGA
• Board• Software• Vendor Tools• Class material
Teach Network System design at under-graduate and graduate level classes
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• Motivation• Version 1• CS344 – Build an IP Router• Version 2• Research• Where now?
Overview
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Motivation
• Provide practical experience in designing computer network systems (routers, switches, etc.)
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Version 1
• Custom board• 3 FPGAs• SRAM, 8 10Mb/s
Ethernets• Racked – remote
development and debugging!
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CS344 – Build an IP Router
• 10 week class. Masters/PhD level.
• Build a router with:– Hardware path for valid IP.– Software path for ARP, OSPF, invalid.– Provide CLI to manage the router.
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CS344 setup
NetFPGA
WebBrowser
WebServer
Campus Internet
VNS
171.64.5.26
171.64.5.3
Routersoftware
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Version 2
• Issues with Version 1– Custom Rack (expensive, complicated)– Slow (10Mb/s)– Software/hardware interface not ideal– Old technology
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Version 2
• PCI, Four 1Gbps interfaces.
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Version 2
V2P30
512Kx36SRAM
512Kx36SRAM
QuadEthPHY
4 x 1G
RocketIOon SATA
RocketIOon SATA
SpartanFLASH
PCI 32@33MHz
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Typical Student design
Student Verilog(e.g. router)
EthMAC
registers
PCI 32@33MHz
Virtex2Pro30
DMA
EthMAC
EthMAC
EthMAC
To SRAM
To SRAM
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Research
• Why? – “Fast and easy to use”– “Enough gates, RAM, and bandwidth to do
real network systems”
• RCP @ Stanford (congestion protocol)
• IDS @ ICSI
• Can touch every packet
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Where now
• Classroom– Cheap, and easy to use– Develop interesting classes– Funding for support, testing, and development– Exploit on-chip CPUs (embedded systems)
• Research– EmuLAB/PlanetLab type configurations?– Easy to use
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More information
• http://klamath.stanford.edu/nf2/
