Broadcom Stingray SmartNIC Accelerates Baidu Cloud Services
March 31 2020 - 9:00AM
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced that its Stingray™
adapter, the industry’s first 100G SmartNIC, is powering Baidu
Cloud with unprecedented levels of performance, security and
feature velocity while reducing service delivery costs. The Baidu
Cloud team worked closely with Broadcom to deliver advanced cloud
native applications, network function virtualization, and
distributed security, leveraging the Stingray SmartNIC’s
programmability and extensive offload features for
networking, storage and security.
As the demand for public
cloud services continues to grow, hyper-scale data
centers and cloud providers increasingly rely on multicore
SmartNIC solutions to offload infrastructure services and
workloads to maximize server utilization. The Stingray adapter’s
exceptional levels of integration, including eight ARM™ A72 CPU
cores running at 3GHz, 300G of memory bandwidth and a market
leading 100G NetXtreme® Ethernet NIC, uniquely enable it to meet
the needs of fast-paced, innovative cloud service providers.
The Stingray adapter enables mega-cloud
providers like Baidu to easily migrate server workloads
to the SmartNIC while dramatically improving the performance of
those workloads. Unlike traditional network adapters that rely
heavily on host resources, the Stingray SmartNIC completely
offloads the host by freeing up not only CPU cores but also
invaluable memory and PCIe bandwidth. As well, its comprehensive
security features, including silicon root of trust and a 100G
hardware encryption engine, make it an ideal platform for
distributed security applications.
“Baidu is partnering with Broadcom for its
SmartNIC product offering,” said Liu Ning, director of the Systems
Department at Baidu. “Broadcom’s Stingray allows us to offload
network and storage workloads from expensive x86 CPU cores, while
at the same time delivering strict secure separation between
infrastructure workloads and customers’ workloads. The powerful and
flexible Stingray System-on-Chip allows us to easily deliver new
features to our customers with unmatched feature velocity and cost
savings.”
“Running software defined services for storage
and networking places an enormous strain on server CPUs, prompting
data center operators to rethink their server architectures,” said
Dan Harding, vice president of marketing for the Compute and
Connectivity Division at Broadcom. “These services require complex
I/O processing, consuming up to 35 percent of server CPU and memory
resources, degrading application performance and reliability. With
Stingray, Baidu is able to move its I/O processing entirely off the
CPU and onto the SmartNIC adapter, ensuring that its customer
applications run unaffected by these essential but taxing
workloads, making their data center more scalable, secure and
cost-effective.”
“The Smart NIC market is forecast to grow at a
40 percent CAGR and comprise a quarter of the Ethernet adapter
market by 2023,” according to Baron Fung, director of research at
Dell’Oro Group. “High performance CPU-based Smart NIC solutions
offer numerous flexibility and offload benefits over that of
traditional NICs. Hence, Smart NICs such as Broadcom’s Stingray are
being adopted by leading cloud providers to accelerate service
delivery and enhance their product offerings. According to Dell’Oro
Group’s 4Q19 Controller and Adapter report, Broadcom, with its
Stingray Smart NIC, commanded the highest share of the Smart NIC
market among Ethernet adapter vendors at the end 2019.”
For more information on Broadcom’s Stingray SmartNIC solutions,
please visit:
https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-connectivity/smartnic
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develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and
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networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and
industrial. Our solutions include data center
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security software focused on automation, monitoring and security,
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