I'd imagine the GPUs would be used to help the control plane only, to bulk-process several prefix updates?
*Pedro Martins Prado* pedro.pr...@gmail.com / +353 83 036 1875 (FaceTime & WhatsApp) On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 17:58, <sro...@ronan-online.com> wrote: > This is part of why the old systems that were mentioned only optimized the > top n routes based on traffic flow (or other configurable metric), because > the cost vs. benefit falls off greatly. > > Shane > > On Dec 5, 2024, at 12:52 PM, Andrey Slastenov <a.slaste...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > +nanog > > > Greetings, Drew > > We don't use GPUs, but we have worked on a similar project focused on > traffic optimization. I would say that the ping issue is one of the top > pain points, even more significant than route recalculation. The more > routes you try to monitor and optimize, the more significant the problem > will become. > > Regarding optimization itself, I don't think you would want to optimize > the entire routing table at the same time. From a calculation perspective, > I don't believe it's a major problem at this point. Please correct me if > I'm wrong. > > > Regards, > > Andrey > > чт, 5 дек. 2024 г. в 18:32, Drew Weaver <drew.wea...@thenap.com>: > >> So back in the.. hell I don’t know like… early 2010s there was a push for >> ‘route optimization’ from products like RouteScience and the Avaya CNA and >> more recently whatever Noction is doing. >> >> >> >> The big pain point for this technology at the time was that it could only >> optimize the top N egress routes due to how many probes it could send out >> and how many results it could process. >> >> >> >> It seems like now with a modest GPU in a router you could pretty easily >> ‘optimize’ [to the extent that you believe this technology worked] pretty >> much the whole routing table. >> >> >> >> We used these tools extensively back then and they actually worked pretty >> well in most cases. The biggest issue we ran into was people complaining >> that we pinged their IP addresses… which now a days seems like a great >> worst problem to have. >> >> >> >> Anyway is anyone doing any work on implementing GPUs into the BGP >> decision making process? Seems like a no brainer. >> >> >> >> -Drew >> >> >> > > > -- > > > > *Andrey Slastenov* > Network Expert > CCIE #19983 > Email:a.slaste...@gmail.com > >
