Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/improving-5g-performance-using-ovs-over-asap-with-amd-epyc-7002-and-nvidia-mellanox-smartnics/
Over the last five years, compute and storage technology have achieved substantial performance increases. At the same time, they’ve been hampered by PCI Express Gen3 (PCIe Gen3) bandwidth limitations. AMD is the first X86 processor company to release support for the PCIe fourth generation bus (PCIe Gen4) with the AMD EPYC 7002 Series processor. This…