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Silicom offers server adapter cards with Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT). By using Intel® QAT, data can be compressed and encrypted at high speed, improving security and performance.

This document uses a Silicom server adapter card (PE3ISLBTL [C627 implementation]), and describes the measurement results of throughput and CPU utilization when -gzip is executed using Intel® QAT, the driver installation procedure, and the command execution method. to introduce.

<Measurement environment>
・Server: HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10

・CPU: Intel® Xeon® Silver 4114 CPU @ 2.20GHz Debug Flow

・OS: CentOS 7.6

・QAT card: Silicom PE3ISLBTL [C627 implementation]

<Contents>
·Overview
・Measurement results of QAT compression and decompression
・Download and install the QAT driver
・QAT compression/decompression operation procedure (outline)
・QAT compression/decompression operation procedure (details)

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