Alacritech Scalable Networking Accelerator Hardware Installation Guide (Fiber)
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1 Introduction
1.1 About
this
Guide
This guide describes how to install the Alacritech
Accelerators in standard PCI and
PCI-X based servers. The following products are covered by this document:
1000 Series:
2000 Series:
1000x1F Server and
Storage Accelerator
SEN2002XF
Accelerator
SES1001F
iSCSI Accelerator
SEN2001XF
Accelerator
SEN2104EF
Accelerator
SEN2102EF
Accelerator
SES2002XF
iSCSI
Accelerator
SES2001XF
iSCSI
Accelerator
SES2104EF
iSCSI
Accelerator
SES2102EF
iSCSI
Accelerator
1.2 Description
Alacritech 1000 and 2000 Series Accelerators are Gigabit Ethernet Accelerators that
employ Alacritech’s patented SLIC Technology architecture, a Dynamic TCP Offload™
methodology, which uses an innovative application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)
for protocol processing.
Products using SLIC Technology architecture increase server performance and effi-
ciency in a number of ways:
•
Protocol processing is offloaded onto the Accelerator, freeing the CPU for
application processing and maximizing throughput.
•
The Alacritech Internet Protocol Processor (IPP) programmable ASIC, op-
timized for protocol processing, delivers faster performance than general-
purpose CPUs.
The SLIC Technology architecture eliminates the burden of protocol processing on the
host CPU. By offloading protocol processing, Alacritech Accelerators free the system
for application processing, boosting server and storage system performance.
