Netronome Unveils Draft Specification for Open, Bare Metal SmartNICs at OCP Summit 2017
Netronome is at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in Santa Clara this week introducing the Install & Configuration of Open NICs (ICONICS) initiative and a related draft specification. The draft specification provides open guidelines for packaging data plane firmware applications and aims to standardize how the functionality of a bare metal Open NIC (network interface card) installed in COTS and OCP servers can be altered in the field to suit the needs of data center operators. Netronome Agilio CX SmartNICs are now available for use as open, bare metal NICs. The ICONICS initiative, combined with the flexibility of Open NICs, will enable innovative business and efficient operational models.