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> they could possibly be used to offload tasks like hashing/dedup or other storage-related functions

Sorry, I was not referring to accelerating storage-related functions, I was wondering about efficient DMA copy from one PCIe device (Intel NVM storage) to another (Xeon Phi accelerator) which would be for useful many different functions, if the NVM storage device capacity is much larger than the accelerator device memory.

parent n00b101 11 years ago

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