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Understanding Intel’s Quick Assist Technology
Understanding Intel’s Quick Assist Technology
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“Level1Techs”
Quick Assist Technology… Will this be the new battleground for the CPU core wars? We think yes! So get ahead of the game with Wendell as he delves into QATs.
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Thank you, Level 1 Techs 👍
My imperfect spidey-sense tells me QAT (Quick Assist Technology)
–being as old as it is and therefore also unoriginal–will not be among the requisite product differentiators propelling Intel back to the forefront . . . even though having dedicated compute like QAT or AICs (dpus) for compr-decompression and encryp-decryption activities is plainly sensible.Separately, does Intel have any defensible moat around QAT commercially / from IP standpoint?
Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.
Can QAT help bitcoin mining farms owned by #billgates?
Wendell is an angel 💜💜
If z-swap were to support this that would be a massive deal, z-swap is already a no-brainer and this would just push it further.
Is there any way these qat devices are available at AWS?
In some alternate universe, there's a Wendell talk show host with a live studio audience, and at the end of the show he gives away Xeons and other server gear to everyone.
When I wanted to upgrade from my Atom C2758 based pfSense router to build a 10GB ethernet home network, I making sure the replacement had QAT as well, I was able to score a great deal on a Supermicro D-2146NT based system. I'm golden for years to come (with horsepower to spare.)
Yeah using dedicated hardware for encryption/decryption is a very good idea that could never be exploited by state actors
unless it allows cheaper gaming pc parts (CPU , GPU , ram ,ssd etc.) & enables/allows huge earth sized game worlds with photo realism (real life) games with life like AI all in the perfect games (resident evil, Need for speed, tomb raider The Division, & many more) i dont care!!!!
Lmao Intel can’t learn their own mistakes even in 2024. Once this tech was made it should have been in every single processor locked behind a license key. Sigh. Now this is an extra level of annoyance.
These videos are so much better than they used to be. It feels so chill and close like you’re a good senior admin that cares to help the new guys. Thanks Wendell ❤
NIC offload is becoming pretty stupid. In a K8s cluster, there are a lot of layers, and inter container traffic also wants to be protected. So only CPU instructions that can be fed through the different virtualization layers makes sense.
Integrating Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) into our systems would significantly boost performance in client VPN, low-level network intrusion detection, and homomorphic computing tasks. For instance, it could bolster encrypted malware, virus, and exploit detection on Linux servers, enabling efficient sinkholing or reflection of malicious traffic. Features like multi-layer encryption, zero-copy processing, content-addressable memory, and in-place detection packet aggregation could address performance and latency hurdles in secure traffic zones.
You might want to tweak your gate/compressor. Volume rapidly all over the place sometimes.
Keep on rambling.
Where is that level1techs computer from?
X86 is slowly morphing into the Cell phone HW methodology. Everything is becoming a HW accelerator.
I got access to :
Intel Xeon X65xx
Intel Xeon E5-26xx
Intel Xeon E5-26xx V2
Intel Xeon E5-26xx V3
Intel Xeon E5-26xx V4
Did some testing using ProxMox VM On most of them.
Cherry Trail may have been the first Atom with QAT, but it was far from the first *Atom*.
I want a guide for taking advantage of AES-NI on a homelab or servarrr setup since 13th gen Intel stuff has it.
And no one is talking about this bs…. Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB; codenamed Palladium[1] and also known as Trusted Windows'[2]) is
If anyone ever put this tech in to a top mount addon module for a Raspberry Pi would be called "QAT in a hat?"
Told my wife I wanted quick assist, she told me to take care of myself and left the room…
Saddly, I am running E5-2687W v4 or E5-2673 v4 everywhere, so, no fun QAT for me.
I'm QAT user on pfSense+ and whilst the VPN use is impressive the lack of general QAT support by Netgate / pfSense is frustrating. As it is there is no support for user-space QAT functions – not even TLS is supported. Indeed, pfSense does not use QAT for any of its own traffic or on-router task and is basically limited to VPN support only. So if there is no active use of VPN the QAT silicon sits idle rather than working with TLS, OpenSSH, nginx, or OpenVPN, DoT etc as there is no QAT engine. When products like pfSense / Netgate ship with handicapped QAT implementations and hides them behind the pfSense+ paywall the lustre of QAT is dimmed. Yes, Intel's overly segmented implementation has hindered QAT development but it is exacerbated by further vendors segmenting QAT and then limiting its utility. The future should look more like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyw9N-k1TaU .
Why are there now people asking if their specific CPU has QAT?
Look at the specs – it will tell you.
No thanks, this is just Intel pushing proprietary junk that nobody asked for. It's already been done to death with the SPARC T5 and now they're all but extinct
15:58 I hope AMD leverages some of their Xilinx IP for on chip acceleration too.
Used a BAD word "Intel" so disliked.
so tldr co processor all over again
What I don't understand about qat is how do I know which CPUs have it? Is it only server CPUs? How do I know which CPUs have it "for free"? Why would I buy an Intel CPU if it either (1) doesn't have the capabilities I need or (2) requires what feels like a ransomware payment to "unlock"? On top of all of that, qat isn't even plug and play. It's sounds simpler to just buy a modern Zen-based CPU and use software-based tooling instead of buying Intel for features that might or might not exist.
I thought they wanted to rent that crap.
Nice timing as I recently started looking into C5000 processors for QAT.
I find Intel’s intro on this page to be very helpful in understanding the context for QAT: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/atom/c5000-p5300-p5700-product-brief.html
bad luck with the pcie adapters.
no support anymore, and blacklisted by vfio for sr-iov.
Ive got a qotom box with a C3758 that has QAT.
Is there ray tracing on a Avatar movie?
Engagement challenge accepted. It doesn't appear my Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 supports QAT, at least not that I was able to find.
If GPUs have taught us anything features are going to become more important than raw grunt as we move forward. The downside to this is much like Nvidia Intel has more pull in what they can get developers to implement, leaving AMD playing catchup when these features get used.
CPUs I have? 2650Lv4s. Do they have QAT? LOL
I am not using any as I am finally getting a homelab set up. I do have 1 intel machine so I should check to see if it has QAT.