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This tag collects WindowsForum.com discussion of Azure Accelerated Networking, the SR-IOV-based networking capability that sits beneath Azure virtual machine traffic. The tagged content examines the underlying plumbing, including SR-IOV SmartNIC technology and research efforts to study it without access to proprietary cloud hardware. One thread covers an MIT Lincoln Laboratory researcher's open-source FPGA network switch that mimics techniques Azure and AWS rely on, explicitly framed as a research project rather than an Azure component. Readers interested in how accelerated networking works at the hardware and virtualization layer, and in academic work that reproduces cloud networking behavior, will find the most relevant material here.
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    MIT Lincoln Lab’s FPGA Switch Targets SR-IOV Cloud Networking Research, With Open-Source Release Planned

    A researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory has built an open-source FPGA network switch that mimics a technique Azure and AWS depend on. Jeffery Lim's platform is meant to let academics study SR-IOV SmartNIC networking without access to a cloud provider's proprietary hardware. It is a research...