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## Awesome SmartNIC



### Papers



- SuperNIC: An FPGA-Based, Cloud-Oriented SmartNIC. *Will Lin, Yizhou Shan, et.al.* FPGA, 2024. [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07744)

- A Comprehensive Survey on SmartNICs: Architectures, Development Models, Applications, and Research Directions. *Elie Kfoury, et.al.* Preprint, 2024. [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09499)

- FPGA-based SmartNIC for Distributed Machine Learning. *Hongyu He*. ETH Master Thesis, 2024. [[Link]](https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/670931)

- Demystifying Datapath Accelerator Enhanced Off-path SmartNIC. *Xuzheng Chen, Jie Zhang, et.al.* ICNP, 2024 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03041)

- HAL: Hardware-assisted Load Balancing for Energy-efficient SNIC-Host Cooperative Computing. *Jinghan Huang, et.al* ISCA, 2024 [[Paper]](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10609665)

- LogNIC: A High-Level Performance Model for SmartNICs. *Zerui Guo, et.al.*, MICRO, 2023 [[Paper]](https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mgliu/papers/LogNIC-micro23.pdf)

- Software-Hardware Co-design of Heterogeneous SmartNIC System for Recommendation Models Inference and Training. *Anqi Guo, et.al.* ICS, 2023 [[Paper]](https://www.bu.edu/caadlab/guo2023software.pdf)

- Lightning: A Reconfigurable Photonic-Electronic SmartNIC for Fast and Energy-Efficient Inference. *Zhizhen Zhong, et.al.* SIGCOMM, 2023 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3603269.3604821) [[Code]](https://github.com/hipersys-team/lightning)

- LEED: A Low-Power, Fast Persistent Key-Value Store on SmartNIC JBOFs. *Zerui Guo, et.al.*, SIGCOMM, 2023 [[Paper]](https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mgliu/papers/leed-sigcomm23.pdf)

- Unleashing SmartNIC Packet Processing Performance in P4. *Jiarong Xing, et.al.* SIGCOMM, 2023 [[Paper]](https://jxing.me/pdf/pipeleon-sigcomm23.pdf), [[Code]](https://github.com/jiarong0907/Pipeleon)

- STYX: Exploiting SmartNIC Capability to Reduce Datacenter Memory Tax. *Houxiang Ji, et.al.* ATC, 2023 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/ji)

- Characterizing Off-path SmartNIC for Accelerating Distributed Systems. *Xingda Wei, et.al.* OSDI, 2023 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi23/presentation/wei-smartnic), [[Code]](https://github.com/smartnickit-project)

- SmartDS: Middle-Tier-centric SmartNIC Enabling Application-aware Message Split for Disaggregated Block Storage. *Jie Zhang, et.al.* ISCA, 2023 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3579371.3589077)

- Towards Accelerating Data Intensive Application's Shuffle Process Using SmartNICs.  *Jiaxin Lin, et.al.* SIGMETRICS, 2023 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3589980)

- Rearchitecting the TCP Stack for I/O-Offloaded Content Delivery. *Taehyun Kim, et.al.* NSDI, 2023 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23/presentation/kim-taehyun)

- RingLeader: Efficiently Offloading Intra-Server Orchestration to NICs. *Jiaxin Lin, et.al.* NSDI, 2023 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23/presentation/lin)

- OXDP: Offloading XDP to SmartNIC for Accelerating Packet Processing. *Feng Wang, et.al.* ICPADS, 2023 [[Paper]](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10077996)

- Adaptive SmartNIC Offloading for Unleashing the Performance of Protocol-Oblivious Forwarding. *Qian Zhang, et.al.*  IOT, 2023. [[Paper]](http://www.zuqingzhu.info/pub_doc/2022/POF_offloading_final.pdf)

- A Framework for Neural Network Inference on FPGA-Centric SmartNICs. *Anqi Guo, et.al.* FPL, 2022 [[Paper]](https://www.bu.edu/caadlab/guo2022framework.pdf)

- Towards portable end-to-end network performance characterization of SmartNICs. *Tong Xing, et.al.* APSys, 2022 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3546591.3547528)

- AlNiCo: SmartNIC-accelerated Contention-aware Request Scheduling for Transaction Processing. *Junru Li, et.al.* ATC, 2022 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/li-junru)

- FpgaNIC: An FPGA-based Versatile 100Gb SmartNIC for GPUs. *Zeke Wang, et.al.* ATC, 2022 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/wang-zeke) [[Code]](https://github.com/RC4ML/FpgaNIC)

- Faster Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs with eBPF Program Warping. *Marco Bonola, et.al.* ATC, 2022 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/bonola)

- FlexTOE: Flexible TCP Offload with Fine-Grained Parallelism. *Rajath Shashidhara, et.al.* NSDI, 2022 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/shashidhara) [[Code]](https://github.com/tcp-acceleration-service/FlexTOE)

- Re-architecting Traffic Analysis with Neural Network Interface Cards. *Giuseppe Siracusano, et. al.* NSDI, 2022 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/siracusano)

- FPGA-Based AI Smart NICs for Scalable Distributed AI Training Systems. *Rui Ma, et.al.* IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 2022 [[Paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10943)

- LineFS: Efficient SmartNIC Offload of a Distributed File System with Pipeline Parallelism. *Jongyul Kim, et.al.* SOSP, 2021 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3477132.3483565)  [[Code]](https://github.com/casys-kaist/LineFS)

- Automated SmartNIC Offloading Insights for Network Functions.*Yiming Qiu, et.al.* SOSP, 2021 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3477132.3483583)

- Xenic: SmartNIC-Accelerated Distributed Transactions. *Jongyul Kim, et.al.* SOSP, 2021 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3477132.3483555)



* Gimbal: Enabling Multi-tenant Storage Disaggregation on SmartNIC JBOFs. *Jaehong Min, et.al.*  SIGCOMM, 2021 [[Paper]](https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2021/files/papers/3452296.3472940.pdf)

* The nanoPU: A Nanosecond Network Stack for Datacenters. *Stephen Ibanez, et.al*. OSDI, 2021 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/ibanez) [[Slide]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/ibanez)

* Enabling Compute-Communication Overlap in Distributed Training Platforms. *Saeed Rashidi, et.al.* ISCA, 2021 [[Paper]](https://synergy.ece.gatech.edu/files/2021/05/ace_isca2021.pdf)

* Autonomous NIC offload. *Boris Pismenny, et.al.* ASPLOS, 2021 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3445814.3446732?cid=81461648878)

* The Programmable Data Plane: Abstractions, Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications. *Oliver Michel, et.al.* ACM Computing Surveys, 2021 [[Paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3447868)]

* hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs. *Marco Spaziani Brunella, et.al.* OSDI, 2020 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/brunella) [[Slide]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/brunella) [[Code]](https://github.com/axbryd/hXDP-Artifacts)

* PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks. *Jiaxin Lin, et. al.* OSDI, 2020 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/lin) [[Slide]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/lin) [[Code]](https://bitbucket.org/uw-madison-networking-research/panic_osdi20_artifact/src/master/) [[Code_cocotb_version]](https://github.com/opensmartnic/panic_with_cocotb)

* Clara: Performance Clarity for SmartNIC Offloading. *Yiming Qiu, et.al.* HotNets, 2020 [[Paper](https://mgliu.sites.cs.wisc.edu/papers/Clara-hotnets20.pdf)]

* SmartNIC Performance Isolation with FairNIC: Programmable Networking for the Cloud. *Stewart Grant, et.al.* SIGCOMM, 2020 [[Paper]](http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/papers/fairnic-sigcomm20.pdf)

* A Case for SmartNIC-accelerated Private Communication. *Duckwoo Kim, et.al*. APNet, 2020 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411029.3411034)

* Corundum: An Open-Source 100-Gbps NIC. *Alex Forencich, et.al.* FCCM, 2020 [[Paper]](http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~snoeren/papers/corundum-fccm20.pdf) [[Slide]](https://www.fccm.org/past/2020/forums/topic/corundum-an-open-source-100-gbps-nic/) [[Code]](https://github.com/corundum/corundum)

* Lynx: A SmartNIC-driven Accelerator-centric Architecture for Network Servers. *Maroun  Tork, et.al.* ASPLOS, 2020  [[Paper]](https://marksilberstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lynx_asplos20.pdf) [[Slide]](https://marksilberstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1105-Lynx-final.pdf) [[Code]](https://github.com/acsl-technion/lynx)

* LeapIO: Efficient and Portable Virtual NVMe Storage on ARM SoCs. *Huaicheng Li, et.al.* ASPLOS, 2020 [[Paper]](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/01/LeapIO-ASPLOS20.pdf)

* AccelTCP: Accelerating Network Applications with Stateful TCP Offloading. *YoungGyoun Moon, et.al.* NSDI, 2020 [[Paper](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi20-paper-moon.pdf)]

* iPipe: A Framework for Building Distributed Applications on SmartNICs. *Ming Liu, et.al.* SIGCOMM, 2019 [[Paper]](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~arvind/[Paper]s/ipipe.pdf) [[Slide]](http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2019/files/slides/paper_7_3.pptx)

* E3: Energy-Efficient Microservices on SmartNIC-Accelerated Servers. *Ming Liu, et.al.* USENIX ATC, 2019 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/liu-ming)

* NICA: An Infrastructure for Inline Acceleration of Network Applications.  *Haggai Eran, et.al.* USENIX ATC, 2019 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/eran) [[Code]](https://github.com/acsl-technion/nica)

* 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]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi19/presentation/stephens)

* Floem: A Programming System for NIC-Accelerated Network Applications. *Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, et.al.* OSDI, 2018 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/phothilimthana) [[Slide]](https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/osdi18_slides_phothilimthana.pdf)  [[Code]](https://github.com/mangpo/floem)

* Your Programmable NIC Should be a Programmable Switch. *Brent Stephens, et.al.* HotNets, 2018 [[Paper]](https://www.cs.uic.edu/~brents/docs/panic.hotnets18.pdf) 

* INCEPTIONN: A Network-Centric Hardware/Algorithm Co-Design to Accelerate Distributed Training of Deep Neural Networks. *Youjie Li, et. al.* MICRO 2018 [[Paper]](https://jongse-park.github.io/files/paper/2018-micro-inceptionn.pdf) [[Slide]](https://jongse-park.github.io/files/slide/2018-micro-inceptionn.pdf)

* Accelerating Flow Processing Middleboxes with Programmable NICs. *YoungGyoun Moon, et.al.* ACM APSys, 2018 [[Paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3265723.3265744)]

* Towards Converged SmartNIC Architecture for Bare Metal and Public Clouds at Tencent Scale. *Layong Luo*. APNet, 2018 [[Slide]](https://conferences.sigcomm.org/events/apnet2018/slides/larry.pdf)

* Beyond SmartNICs: Towards a Fully Programmable Cloud (Invited Paper). *Adrian Caulfield, et.al.* HPSR, 2018 [[Paper]](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8850757/)

* Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud. *Daniel Firestone, et.al.* NSDI, 2018 [[Paper]](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/firestone)

* UNO: unifying host and smart NIC offload for flexible packet processing.  *Yanfang  Le, et.al.* SoCC 2017 [[Paper]](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3127479.3132252)  

* KV-Direct: High-Performance In-Memory Key-Value Store with Programmable NIC. *Bojie Li, et.al.* SOSP, 2017 [[Paper]](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/kv-direct-high-performance-memory-key-value-store-programmable-nic/) 

* IncBricks: Toward InNetwork Computation with an In-Network Cache. *Ming Liu, et.al.* ASPLOS, 2017 [[Paper](https://mgliu.sites.cs.wisc.edu/papers/IncBricks-asplos17.pdf)]

* ClickNP: Highly Flexible and High Performance Network Processing with Reconfigurable Hardware. *Bojie Li, et.al.* SIGCOMM, 2016 [[Paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2934872.2934897)]

* High Performance Packet Processing with FlexNIC. *Antoine Kaufmann, et.al.* ASPLOS, 2016 [[Paper](https://people.mpi-sws.org/~antoinek/documents/16asplos_flexnic.pdf)] [[Slide](https://people.mpi-sws.org/~antoinek/documents/16asplos_flexnic_slides.pdf)]

* FlexNIC: Rethinking Network DMA. *Antoine Kaufmann, et.al.* HotOS, 2015 [[Paper](https://people.mpi-sws.org/~antoinek/documents/15hotos_flexnic.pdf)] [[Slide](https://people.mpi-sws.org/~antoinek/documents/15hotos_flexnic_slides.pdf)]

* Security Offload Using the SmartNIC, A Programmable 10 Gbps Ethernet NIC. *Gerald Sabin, et.al.* NAECON, 2015 [[Paper](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7443082)]



### Reports



* Performance Characteristics of the BlueField-2 SmartNIC. *Jianshen Liu, et.al.* Preprint, 2021[[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06619)]



* Cisco Nexus SmartNIC. *Cisco.* 2021 [[Website]](https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/interfaces-modules/nexus-smartnic/index.html)



* InnovaTM-2 Flex Open Programmable SmartNIC. *Mellanox.* 2020 [[Datasheet]](https://network.nvidia.com/files/doc-2020/pb-innova-2-flex.pdf)



* Investigating Scientific Workload Acceleration using BlueField SmartNICs. *Brody Williams, et.al.* OSTI.GOV/Technical Report, 2020 [[Report](https://doi.org/10.2172/1607904)]



* 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](https://doi.org/10.2172/1565824)]



* How to Design SmartNICs Using FPGAs to Increase Server Compute Capacity. Achronix, 2019 [[Website]](https://www.achronix.com/sites/default/files/docs/How_to_Design_SmartNICs_Using_FPGAs_to_Increase_Server_Compute_Capacity_WP017.pdf)



### Projects



* Hellosnic: An elementary-level smartnic example, with fpga-based integrated structure. [[Code]](https://github.com/opensmartnic/hellosnic)

* OpenSNAPI: Toward a Unified API for SmartNICs [[Website]](https://www.ucfconsortium.org/projects/opensnapi/) [[Report](https://doi.org/10.2172/1645063)]

* OpenNIC: An FPGA-based NIC platform for the open source community. *Xilinx*. [[Website](https://github.com/Xilinx/open-nic)] [Related Projects: [open-nic-shell](https://github.com/Xilinx/open-nic-shell), [driver](https://github.com/Xilinx/open-nic-driver)] [[Video](https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1V64y1m7g3)]

* ESnet SmartNIC hardware design repository. *Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.* [[Code]](https://github.com/esnet/esnet-smartnic-hw)



### Blogs



* SmartNICs in the Cloud: The Why, What, and How of In-network Processing for Data-Intensive Applications. *Faeze Faghih, et.al* , SIGMOD Tutorials, 2024



* NVIDIA Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC Hands-On Tutorial. [Levente Csikor](https://cslev.medium.com/?source=user_profile-------------------------------------), [[Part I]](https://medium.com/codex/getting-your-hands-dirty-with-mellanox-bluefield-2-dpus-deployed-in-cloudlabs-clemson-facility-bcb4e689c7e6), [[Part II]](https://medium.com/codex/nvidia-mellanox-bluefield-2-smartnic-dpdk-rig-for-dive-part-ii-change-mode-of-operation-a994f0f0e543), [[Part III]](https://medium.com/codex/nvidia-mellanox-bluefield-2-smartnic-dpdk-rig-for-dive-part-iii-ultimate-cloudlab-setup-7efd8b47a480), [[Part IV]](https://medium.com/codex/nvidia-mellanox-bluefield-2-smartnic-hands-on-tutorial-rig-for-dive-28364edc7732), [[Part V]](https://medium.com/codex/nvidia-mellanox-bluefield-2-smartnic-hands-on-tutorial-rig-for-dive-65a6b7278b23), [[Part VI]](https://medium.com/codex/nvidia-mellanox-bluefield-2-smartnic-hands-on-tutorial-rig-for-dive-b0cc4e8b2520), [[Part VII/A]](https://medium.com/codex/nvidia-mellanox-bluefield-2-smartnic-hands-on-tutorial-rig-for-dive-part-vii-1417e2e625bf), [[Part VII/B]](https://medium.com/codex/nvidia-mellanox-bluefield-2-smartnic-hands-on-tutorial-rig-for-dive-part-vii-b-contd-afaffce7af4f)



* 网络的智能应该放在哪里：网卡、交换机还是 xPU？ *李博杰*，知乎 [[Website]](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/657498193)



* 打造高性能 IaaS 计算架构，百度智能云 DPU 落地实践.  [[Website]](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/RC1KnekYhXaya5_Aw9yRpQ)



* What Is a SmartNIC?  *Kevin Deierling*, Mellanox Blog, 2018 [[Website ]](https://blog.mellanox.com/2018/08/defining-smartnic/)



* The new life of SmartNICs. *Mark Silberstein*, ACM SIGARCH, 2018 [[Website]](https://www.sigarch.org/the-new-life-of-smartnics/)



* 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]](https://www.zhihu.com/question/24174597/answer/138717507) 



* SmartNIC那些事. 唐杰账号（微信公众号）[Websit [1](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jg0VVDrwn_hGb9G43Z_l7g), [2](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/q2620UtrmgvryTnLPH0Hbg), [3](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/os-ehp_uaDk3Z2-D4BCsMg), [4](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xCQSG6c6LrCt-nwPjeDOvw), [5](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QcHCv-RUvNB24GDXIcvrXw), [6](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/p5JbP8JKAiULE8BF_YCfNA), [7](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/EAB-fc9ZZwpki6A6M5sjlQ), [8](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fjV3e4-q4Nk-a_uNRoaHFA), [9](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/T-ZY6N22p18w-qsPmT7srQ), [10](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fo2s3BJ4a_93sK-wpW5S8w)] [[Video](https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDYyNTEzMTg5Mg==.html)]



* SmartNICs and SmartSSDs, the Future of Smart Acceleration, *Scott Schweitzer*, SNIA SDC, 2020 [[Website&Slide](https://www.snia.org/educational-library/smartnics-and-smartssds-future-smart-acceleration-2020)]



* Have SmartNIC – Will Compute,  *Scott Schweitzer*, ElectronicDesign, 2020-2021[[Website](https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/whitepaper/21134485/xilinx-have-smartnic-will-compute)]



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### Patents



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