Research Program (cont.)

`Pushing’ Functionality -- An Example from the ASAN (Active System Area Networks) Project:
- Reduce communication latency and increase bandwidth
  - by specializing communication functionality and
  - by selectively assigning it to host CPUs vs. network interfaces

Message Size (bytes)

10000

4000

Received bandwidth (MBits/sec)

2000

three senders - no flow control

three senders - flow control

Experimentation with ATM Fore Interfaces (Rosu)

`Pushing’ Functionality -- An Example from the ASAN (Active System Area Networks) Project: