{"id":6062,"date":"2026-09-22T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:42:22","slug":"xpubench-at-pam26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/xpubench-at-pam26\/","title":{"rendered":"xPUBench at PAM&#8217;26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We presented our paper xPUBench at PAM&#8217;26, which compares the energy consumption of CPU, DPU and GPUs for network functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007\/978-3-032-18268-5_17\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-1024x601.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-1024x601.png 1024w, https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-768x450.png 768w, https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image.png 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among many findings in the paper, we show the importance of the uncore, the high potential for GPU only systems and ARM complete systems like standalong DPUs that are nearly on par with x86 counter-part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We presented our paper xPUBench at PAM&#8217;26, which compares the energy consumption of CPU, DPU and GPUs for network functions. 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