AMD Solarflare™ Onload™ Software

AMD Solarflare™ Onload™ dramatically accelerates and scales network-intensive applications such as in-memory databases, software load balancers, and web servers. With Onload, data centers can support 400% or more users on their cloud network while delivering improved reliability, enhanced quality of service (QoS) and higher return on investment, without modification to existing applications.

Onload allows data centers to realize:

• Improved elasticity and efficiency, leading to a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Increased peak transaction rates, eliminating service brownouts
• Reduced network jitter with greater response times, equating to superior quality of service

Features:

Onload delivers a return on CAPEX investments by allowing data centers to redeploy 25% or more of their load-balancing servers for other tasks. Alternatively, data centers can attain a reduction in operational expenses (OPEX) by shrinking the overall server footprint.

Onload accelerates nearly all network-intensive TCP-based applications. Typical performance improvements when utilizing Onload include:

Ensuring Uptime and Network Compatibility

Onload is built from the same I/O software technology that powers nearly every financial market and high-frequency trading application on the planet. POSIX compliant, Onload ensures compatibility with TCP-based applications, management tools, and network infrastructures. In addition, Onload provides RDMA-like performance without requiring a forklift upgrade to the data center’s network infrastructure and can be deployed across x86-based platforms running Linux – bare metal, virtual machine or container.