Re: Route optimization using GPUs?

[Rubens Kuhl <rubensk () gmail com>]

Actually, some kind of content addressable memory looks more promising
for increasing update throughput than GPUs.


Rubens

On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 1:13 PM Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com> wrote:
> So back in the.. hell I don’t know like… early 2010s there was a push for ‘route optimization’ from products like 
> RouteScience and the Avaya CNA and more recently whatever Noction is doing.
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> The big pain point for this technology at the time was that it could only optimize the top N egress routes due to how 
> many probes it could send out and how many results it could process.
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> It seems like now with a modest GPU in a router you could pretty easily ‘optimize’ [to the extent that you believe 
> this technology worked] pretty much the whole routing table.
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> We used these tools extensively back then and they actually worked pretty well in most cases. The biggest issue we 
> ran into was people complaining that we pinged their IP addresses… which now a days seems like a great worst problem 
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> Anyway is anyone doing any work on implementing GPUs into the BGP decision making process? Seems like a no brainer.
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> -Drew