Details ... Asynchronous Interface

• In some machines the processor must implement the communication

• This is synchronous ... both source and destination processors must be processing the message at the same time -- inefficient

• Decouple using a NIC

  • Processor computes
  • Data managed by NIC
  • A NIC is potentially a
    very low latency interface

Processor

Memory

NIC

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