Flexible Classification on Heterogenous Multicore Appliance Platforms

Emerging heterogeneous multicore systems are suitable platforms for efficient deployment of application- specific service components. Easily virtualizable and reprogrammable platforms, these ´appliances´ for future information services make it possible to run familiar software stacks created with common development tools, in addition to offering acceleration capabilities for performance critical software components. Of particular importance are the efficient and scalable execution of the content-based services prevalent in future Internet applications, including flexible methods for data classification and forwarding. This paper provides a brief description of representative platform hardware and software components. It then describes in more detail the feasibility of supporting a range of flexible and reconfigurable application-specific classification operations necessary for future Internet applications.