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Gzip on a PCI card

Posted by michael on from the what-will-they-think-of-next dept.

steve writes "The German tech news site heise.de is reporting here (in German, of course) about a PCI card developed by the Universiy of Wuppertal and Vigos AG being shown at CeBIT, which does Gzip compression in hardware, thus freeing the CPU to do other tasks. The PCI card can compress 32MB/sec, which is more than enough to compress a 100Mbit LAN in realtime. A future version will do 64MB/sec. The article mentions that this will be of particular interest for web servers. The card should be on sale by the end of the year."

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  1. Re:Hardware Gzip by Lord+Sauron · · Score: 4, Funny

    A hardware that does the dirty processing job while freeing the CPU ? Wow, that's new. I'm going to the USPTO to get my patent on this.

    Maybe I can even make some money on Intel, as they were in clear violation of my patent with their arithmetic coprocessor for use with the 80386SX family of microprocessors .

  2. Re:Not quiet yet... by arvindn · · Score: 2, Funny

    You might want to try out mod_msff: the Microsoft-free friday apache module ;)

  3. Warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Running gzip on a PCI card could invalidate its warranty. Make a backup of /proc/bus/pci/(card number) first.