Tom Herbert
If You Only Knew the Power of the Compiler!
SiPanda has created a game changing programming and compiler model for easy programmability of the high performance network datapath.
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Tom Herbert
- Sep 9
- 6 min
TLV Parser Instructions: The World’s FASTEST Way to Parse TLVs!
SiPanda CPU instructions for parsing TLVs are a game changer! We address the long held notion that TLVs are the bane of network processing.
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Tom Herbert
- Sep 2
- 6 min
Parser Instructions in RISC-V: Goin' hypersonic!
Parser instructions in RISC-V are a great example of applying Domain Specific Architecture to extend and augment CPUs for a particular need
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Tom Herbert
- Aug 26
- 6 min
Taming the Internet Extremes: From Intra-rack to Mars
We talk about the distance-latency extremes of the Internet and commonalities we can leverage in communications from a single rack to Mars
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Tom Herbert
- Aug 19
- 6 min
Protocol Parsing Mechanics 101!
We dive into the mechanics of protocol parsing, including parsing of TLVs, for super high performance in both software and hardware.
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Tom Herbert
- Aug 12
- 4 min
Network protocol parsing–It’s not as scary as you think!
Protocol parsing is the bane of high performance network datapath. We'll show it really doesn't have to be that way!
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Tom Herbert
- Aug 5
- 4 min
Dependency Resolution– It’s the bomb!
Dependency resolution: The mechanics of resolving dependencies for synchronization between threads in horizontal of vertical parallelism
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Tom Herbert
- Jul 29
- 4 min
A Threading Model for Extremely Extreme Parallelism
A model for multi-threading in the high performance network data path that facilates fine grained parallelism!
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Tom Herbert
- Jul 22
- 4 min
Dependencies Synchronization: Deadlock ain't happenin'
How does a synchronization mechanism for multi-threading that laughs at the possibility of deadlock sound? :-)
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Tom Herbert
- Jul 15
- 3 min
Vertical Parallelism and the Networking Datapath
Vertical parallelism: Processing different of layers in the same packet in parallel for super low latency!
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Tom Herbert
- Jul 9
- 4 min
Horizontal Parallelism and the Networking Datapath
Horizontal parallelism: Processing packets in parallel (without relying on annoying per flow affinity)!
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Tom Herbert
- Aug 4, 2021
- 2 min
PANDA 1.3: High Performance Programmable Parser for the Linux Kernel!
Tom Herbert, SiPanda CTO, Wednesday August 4, 2021 Last week we released version 1.3 of the Programming and Network Datapath Acceleration...
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Quinn Jacobson
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
Why Legacy Architectures Are The Antithesis of Hardware/Software Co-Design
Quinn Jacobson, SiPanda Hardware Architect, Friday July 9, 2021 One of the most powerful concepts in both hardware and software...
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Quinn Jacobson
- Jul 6, 2021
- 3 min
Critical Concepts in Hardware/Software Co-Design
Quinn Jacobson, SiPanda Hardware Architect, Tuesday July 6, 2021 So now that we talked about what co-design isn’t in our last blog, let’s...
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Quinn Jacobson
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
If You're Not Doing Hardware/Software Co-Design, You're Doing It Wrong!
If You're Not Doing Hardware/Software Co-Design, You're Doing It Wrong!
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Tom Herbert
- May 20, 2021
- 2 min
SiPanda Releases PANDA Version 1.2 With XDP/eBPF Support
(Tom Herbert, SiPanda CTO, Thursday May 20, 2021) SiPanda has released Version 1.2 of Programming And Network Datapath Acceleration...
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Tom Herbert
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
The “Ozzification” of the Internet
(Tom Herbert, SiPanda CTO, April 28, 2021) The Internet is one of humanity's greatest achievements. Think about it, at our fingertips or...
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Tom Herbert
- Apr 22, 2021
- 2 min
Solving the “Undiscovered Country” Dilemma for Hyperscalers and Cloud Service Providers
(Tom Herbert, SiPanda CTO, April 22, 2021) Most of us that conceptualize and develop products for the IT ecosystem are trying to solve...
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Tom Herbert
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
SiPanda’s PANDA Parser
The World’s Fastest, Most Extensible, and Easiest-to-Use Open Source Parser Running on the CPU (Tom Herbert, SiPanda CTO, April 14, 2021)...
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Tom Herbert
- Apr 7, 2021
- 2 min
SiPanda’s PANDA Parser vs P4 for Network Datapath Programming Part 2:Why PANDA-C Is the Right Model
(Tom Herbert, SiPanda CTO, April 8, 2021) Our last blog explored the P4 programming language and its shortcomings for programming the...
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