Intel Develops Hardware To Enhance TCP/IP Stacks

RyuuzakiTetsuya writes "The Register is reporting that Intel is developing I/OAT, or I/O Acceleration Technology, which allows the CPU, the mobo chipset and the ethernet controller to help deal with TCP/IP overhead."

finally...

[N5]

intel is working on something worthwile: a cure for the common slashdot-ing

and they say the drug companies are miracle workers ;)

Fastest network card EVAR

[Anonymous Coward]

I was one of the lucky few who beta tested this. The plus side is you can overclock your network card to download faster than the remote server bandwidth. I did not try it, but I would be able to slashdot the slashdot.org website just by browsing it.

Security updates

[KiloByte]

As we know it damn well, shit happens all the time.

So... how exactly are they going to ship patches in the case of a security issue?

yeah great

[Anonymous Coward]

soon it will be dedicated processor and RAM to deal with tcp, then a dedicated processor for the keyboard input, then a dedicated processor for the fans and a special dedicated processor on 12" PCI-X card for the extremely computationally intensive MOUSE, actually this will have it's own special dedicated path call 'AMP' or Accelerated Mouse Port. Mice of the future will need much more bandwidth than today. About 16 GB i/o so they need their own data paths.

And then there will be other enhancements like the tcp/ip one.

For instance a special accelerator card for Word and Internet Explorer will be developed.

Furious Linux users will demand their own technology, so one manufacurer will come up with a special card for running GNOME apps. This card will have 4 duel core 6 Ghz processors and allow Gnome to run at normal speeds.

Re:A good thing

[Quobobo]

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So finally!

[Trogre]

buying Intel really will make the internet go faster!

Re:cpu? e-net controller?

[mabinogi]

didn't you know?

The secret to faster downloads is to keep wiggling the mouse, that way it pushes the data through faster.

Re:Were you born a lazy sack of shit?

[Anonymous Coward]

I accelereate TCP/IP stacks...

with my ASS!

Re:Most people define Acryonyms second

[Anonymous Coward]

You guys put the "-" in anal-retentive.

Re:yeah great

[ceeam]

But then - imagine that - a single Z80 would suffice to act as a _C_PU commanding all those!

ha! who needs it?

[flacco]

...when you can get AOL internet accelerator for FREE!

Ha, old news! FPS's have had this for ages.

[quarrel]

This is ridiculous.

We're had this for years in FPS's- used to be that I used to have to practice for ages just to compete with the young kids at FPS's. Then along came some great 'acceleration' technology, and it's been so much easier. I call mine a bot.

Ever since it hasn't been about upgrading my CPU or graphics cards to get that head-shot. I've been offloading all that work!

Re:Good stuff!

[maxwell demon]

Doing so may ofcurse have other affects though.

Of curse?

d
What do you want to drop? [a?*]
?
a - a cursed -1 tcp/ip connection
a
Sorry, you can't drop the tcp/ip connection, it seems to be cursed.

Hmmm ... where's my scroll of remove curse?

Re:A good thing

[orasio]

3. Don't be funny. Funny doesn't give you karma.

Re:Nothing to see here

[ergo98]

I'll take any speed boosts Intel wants to throw my way but I think their efforts would be better spent elsewhere.

Craig Barrett here.

Listen we apologize for this distraction, and apologize for not consulting with you first. I guess some of our engineers just got caught up in something silly and they went off and did this when instead they could be doing things more valuable to you.

We immediately begin work on the porn accelerator coprocessor.