[Xorp-hackers] Taking benefit of parallel processing in BGP

Bruce Simpson bms at incunabulum.net
Fri Dec 18 17:32:52 PST 2009


Bruce Simpson wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying that BGP itself would be used as the mechanism for 
> dividing BGP's work across cores. This is likely to be easier to deal 
> with, and it's something that can probably achieved in your time frame.
>   

This might be useful:
    http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/caesar/papers/hair.pdf
    http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~kiderj/research/papers/APSP-gh08-fin-T.pdf

They're discussing hardware implementation of BGP design elements on 
GPGPU and FPGA, however this is highly dependent on memory layout, and 
specific operations the GPU can offer. It might supply some general 
ideas to draw on though.

cheers,
BMS



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