How does the Alacritech solution compare to IOAT?
IOAT (I/O Acceleration Technology) is a proprietary technology from Intel that attempts to improve upon TCP processing by accelerating multiple inefficient data movement functions, most notably how data is written to and from memory. Alacritech’s approach is to achieve acceleration and lower latency in part by reducing the number of times data is transported across the memory bus. Alacritech’s Accelerators consistently outperform Intel IOAT through a cleaner and much more efficient design. IOAT is only available on specific Intel-based platforms. Alacritech solutions, on the other hand, work on multiple platforms.
