FD.io Sees Packet Speeds Double with Intel’s New Chips

The open source Fast Data Project (FD.io) announced double performance gains made possible by the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Intel’s new chips, which it announced this week, are designed to support data center and networking workloads. The FD.io group said the chips have helped it to double its vSwitch performance packet speeds at scale without modification to the software. The FD.io project’s scope includes software-based packet processing, fast Input/Output (IO), and universal data plane management across bare metal, hypervisor, and container environments. FD.io offers the software-defined infrastructure developer community a landing site with multiple projects. It says it’s the only vSwitch for which performance scaling is IO bound rather than CPU bound.