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UDP over 25GbE using Liquid-Markets-Solutions ÜberNIC CXL on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 with BittWare IA-440i Agilex FPGA Card on Supermicro X13SEI-F using water-cooled Intel Xeon Gold 6558Q with Alphacool Eiszeit 2000

Type: Audited

Specs: STAC-N1 Benchmarks

25 GBE stack under test:

  • STAC-N1 Pack for LMS ÜberSock API (udp-ubernic-1.0.0)
  • FPGA Stack
    • BittWare IA-440i Agilex FPGA Card @ 16 lane PCIe 5.0 with CXL 1.1 extensions
      • Bittware Agilex FPGA environment
      • LMS ÜberNIC CXL 25GbE firmware and user space kernel bypass libraries
      • FPGA was air cooled @ room temperature
    • LC Multimode fiber cable and FS.com SFP28+ transceivers
  • Server Stack
    • Supermicro X13SEI-F single socket motherboard (no chassis), each with
      • 1 x 32-core Intel® Xeon® Gold 6558Q @ 3.2GHz (only 24 cores were enabled to operate at higher clock speed of 3.5Ghz and turbo at 4.1Ghz), water cooled using:
        • Alphacool Eiszeit 2000
        • Alphacool ES Jet LGA 4677 2U CPU Cooler
      • 32GiB ECC RAM running @ 5200Mhz
    • RedHat Enterprise Linux 9.3 (Plow)

    Tested by: STAC

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