Scalable Networking Pack
Encyclopedia
Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is a set of additions that adds new features to Microsoft
's Windows Server 2003
Service Pack 1 or later with architectural enhancements and API
s to support the new capabilities of network acceleration and hardware-based offload technologies.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
's Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005...
Service Pack 1 or later with architectural enhancements and API
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
s to support the new capabilities of network acceleration and hardware-based offload technologies.
Features
- TCP Chimney Offload – providing seamlessly integrated support for network adapters with TCP Offload EngineTCP Offload EngineTCP offload engine or TOE is a technology used in network interface cards to offload processing of the entire TCP/IP stack to the network controller...
s (TOE) - Receive-side Scaling – dynamically load-balances inbound network connections across multiple processors or cores
- NetDMA – enables support for advanced direct memory access technologies, such as Intel I/O Acceleration TechnologyI/O Acceleration TechnologyI/O Acceleration Technology is a DMA engine by Intel bundled with high-end server motherboards, that offloads memory copies from the main processor...
(Intel I/OAT)